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''Moonlite'' is a 1910 bushranger film about Captain Moonlite, played by John Gavin, who also directed. It was also known as Captain Moonlite and is considered a lost film. It followed on the success of ''Thunderbolt'' (1910), also made by Gavin and Forsyth. ==Synopsis== In the early 1870s, a New Zealand army officer, Captain George Scott, is caught cheating at cards and brutally beats a fellow officer. Disgraced and discharged, he joins the clergy and falls in love with the beautiful Ruth Clarke, whose brother has embezzled a large amount of money and is going to be arrested. For her sake he robs the Edgerton Bank, and arranges to leave by boat to England. The police arrive as he gets on the boat the ''Lady Isabelle'' and although he attempts to swim away he is wounded and arrested. Constables Ryan and Mae have their first case. Scott later escapes from gaol by strangling a warden and releasing another prisoner. He becomes a bushranger under the name of "Moonlite", forming a gang which includes Ruth's brother. He saves an aboriginal "gin" called Bunda Bunda from downing, then goes on to rob the gold escort, distributing some of this money to the poor. Moonlite and his gang go on to stick up a country pub and the police send Inspector Carroll and his men after him. Moonlite's gang hold up Wantabadgery Station, and Carroll gives chase but they are fought off and Bunda Bunda saves Moonlite's life. Ryan and Mac make a capture, and Bunda Bunda shoots the tracker after Moonlite. Eventually Moonlite is captured at McCreedy's farm after a shootout by Inspector Carroll in which Bunda Bunda is killed. He is taken away to gaol for the last time to be executed. All Ruth is left with is his cross. The chapter headings were as follows: #The Great Military Scene #Scott as a Minister #Scott Robs the Egerton Bank #Ryan and Mac's First Case #Scott's Great Escape from the Boat Lady Isabel #Scott's Swim: Arrest and Escape from Gaol #The Forming of the Gang #To the Bush ; Scott Saves Bunda Bunda; Bunda Bunda's Swim #Gold Escort Robbery #Scott's Kindness to the Poor #Sticking Up the Roadside Pub #Troopers Drilling Under Inspector Carrol #Sticking Up Wantabadgery Station #Great Police Chase #Scott's Strategy and Defeat of Inspector Carrol #Ryan and Mac Make a Capture #Ryan and Mac Drilling for Duty #Young Clarke, the Bushranging bareback Rider #Bunda Bunda Shoots the Tracker #The Great Fight at McCready's Farm #Moonlite's last Journey to Gaol #The Cross is All that is Left to Ruth. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Moonlite」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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