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The Fatal Wedding (1911)

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The Fatal Wedding is a 1911 Australian silent film directed by Raymond Longford based on a popular American stage melodrama which he and Lottie Lyell had toured around Australia.

It was Longford's debut feature as director and one of the most popular Australian movies of its day. It is considered a lost film.

Synopsis

An adventuress, Cora Williams is in love with Harold Wilson, even though he is happily married to Mabel, and they have small children. Cora gets a man called Curtis to pretend to be in love with Mabel and engineers a situation where Harold walks in on them and gets the wrong impression. It works, Harold divorces Mabel and gets custody of their children Jessie and Frankie. Mabel winds up abducting them.

Actors

Raymond Longford

(Howard Wilson)
Lottie Lyell

(Mabel Wilson)
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