Hills of Hate (1926)

Interesting facts

Hills of Hate is a 1926 Australian silent film directed by Raymond Longford, based on the debut novel of a similar name by E. V. Timms, who also wrote the screenplay. It is considered a lost film.

Production

Master Pictures bought the screen rights in January 1926 and Timms was hired to write the script. Everyones said it "presents a new type of Australian character set amid the wide open spaces, and should make an excellent photoplay. "

The studio would make it after two other outdoors adventures, The Pioneers and Tall Timber. Raymond Longford, who directed both Pioneers and Hills of Hate later said at the 1927 Royal Commission that both films "were selected by the directors of the combine; they were produced at an inadequate expense and in many cases the cast was chosen despite my protests.

The films stars were Dorothy Gordon and Gordon Collingridge, who Everyones said was "well known to fans" having "established himself by his remarkable work opposite Lotus Thompson and now as a leading man he is greatly in demand." Kevin Gallagher was a recent arrival from Ireland. Gordon had worked in Hollywood for six years and did art direction on For the Term of His Natural Life (1927).

'Big' Bill Wilson was a professional boxer before being discovered by a casting agent at the Sydney Stadium and cast in Tall Timber (1926).

Longford said "the cast was engaged without consulting me. We were told that the attacks in Mr Hugh D McIntosh's newspapers would cease if we allotted the star part as he desired".

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