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The Man from Kangaroo is a film of genre Drama directed by Wilfred Lucas with Agnes Vernon

The Man from Kangaroo (1920)

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Genres Drama
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The Man from Kangaroo is a 1920 Australian silent film starring renowned Australian sportsman Snowy Baker. It was the first of several films he made with the husband and wife team of director Wilfred Lucas and writer Bess Meredyth, both of whom had been imported from Hollywood by E. J. Carroll.

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John Harland is a former boxer turned reverend posted to the town of Kangaroo. He falls in love with Muriel, an orphaned heiress, and discovers that her guardian Martin Giles is embezzling her inheritance. Harland earns the ire of parishioners by teaching young boys to box, and Giles manipulates local opinion to have the bishop remove him.

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Agnes Vernon

(Muriel Hammond)Wilfred Lucas

(Red Jack Braggan)
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