Margaret Dare has been gallivanting about Europe on checks from her father's station in Australia. But the river that fattens the cattle has been drying up. Manager Victor Jory wants to drill for water, but so long as the checks go to Miss Dare, there's none for the drill, so he write a preemptory letter to the lady, who shows up with smitten Robert Coote in tow. As the water sinks, Jory and Miss Dare wrangle, then start to bond.
Zane Grey thought that Arizona was getting too crowded, so he moved to Australia for a while and wrote the book this is based on. It's definitely an A western in the period when they were not very common. This story could have been transplanted to the American West with nothing but a change in accents.
It's a very entertaining movie, thanks to Clarence Badger's direction, Jory's masculinity in a period when producers thought he could be a leading man instead of an interesting villain, and Coote's what-ho English idiocy tempered with a good nature and actual use to the plot about the drying river.
Zane Grey thought that Arizona was getting too crowded, so he moved to Australia for a while and wrote the book this is based on. It's definitely an A western in the period when they were not very common. This story could have been transplanted to the American West with nothing but a change in accents.
It's a very entertaining movie, thanks to Clarence Badger's direction, Jory's masculinity in a period when producers thought he could be a leading man instead of an interesting villain, and Coote's what-ho English idiocy tempered with a good nature and actual use to the plot about the drying river.