Robbery Under Arms (1920 film)

Robbery Under Arms
Directed byKenneth Brampton
Written byKenneth Brampton
Based onnovel by Rolf Boldrewood
Produced byPearson Tewksbury
StarringKenneth Brampton
S.A. Fitzgerald
CinematographyLacey Percival
Production
company
Pacific Photo Plays[1][2]
Distributed byUnion Theatres
Release date
  • 2 October 1920 (1920-10-02)
Running time
53 minutes
CountryAustralia
LanguagesSilent
English intertitles
Budget£3,000
Box office£16,000[3]

Robbery Under Arms is a 1920 Australian film directed by Kenneth Brampton and financed by mining magnate Pearson Tewksbury.[4] It is an early example of the "Meat pie Western".[5]

  1. ^ "DID YOU KNOW?". The Courier-Mail. Brisbane: National Library of Australia. 10 January 1947. p. 2. Retrieved 26 July 2012.
  2. ^ "Robbery Under Arms". The Sunday Times. Sydney: National Library of Australia. 31 October 1920. p. 22. Retrieved 18 August 2013.
  3. ^ Cite error: The named reference shirley was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  4. ^ Pearson Tewksbury at Australian Dictionary of Biography
  5. ^ Lennon, Troy (21 January 2018). "Australian 'meat pie' westerns have been around for more than a century". The Daily Telegraph.

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