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''The Tide of Death'' is a 1912 Australian silent film directed by Raymond Longford based on an original story by Longford.〔("AMUSEMENTS. HIS MAJESTY'S THEATRE." ''The Mercury (Hobart, Tas)'' 20 Jun 1912 ) accessed 8 December 2011〕 This was rare at the time because most Australian silent films were based on plays or novels. It is considered a lost film. == Synopsis == The film is set in Australia's past. It opens with a young mining contractor, Philip Maxwell, blowing up a rock at a mining site. He then rides on horseback to the bank to get wages for his crew. "The Lizard", a camp loafer, learns about this and informs Black Dan Bryce, who decides to rob Philip with his gang. This is overheard by Dan's step daughter Sylvia who rides for help. The saddle bag containing the money is secured by one of Dan's gang, who is overpowered by Phillip. He manages to conceal the money just before he is captured by Dan and refuses to say where it is. The gang suspect Sylvia of being an informant and knock her down; she recovers in time to see Phillip being taken away, then finds Phillip's horse and rides for help. Dan tries to get Phillip to talk by tying him to a stake in the middle of a rising tidal creek, while Sylvia manages to alert Phillip's mining crew. The water is rising to Phillip's chin when Slyvia arrives on horseback, dashes into the creek, stems the tide and cuts Phillip free. Two years later Philip and Sylvia are married and have a baby, Edna, when Phillip gets an urgent telegram from home. While he is away their house is burgled by Dan and his old gang, who recognise Sylvia and kidnap her to get revenge. They take her away to a hut and make her their servant. Unable to find any trace of his wife, Philip thinks she has left him, so he sells his property and goes abroad with Edna. Black Dan's gang argue amongst themselves, causing a fire at the hut, enabling Sylvia to escape. When she returns home she finds her house abandoned and Philip and her child gone. She goes to a convent where the sisters nurse her through an illness. She later becomes an assistant teacher at Spencerville Private School. Three years later Philip and Edna return to Australia. Edna loses a trinket which one of the school children find and return to Sylvia. She advertises it and Edna's nurse draws Phillips attention to it. He and Edna visit the school and are reunited with Slyvia〔Andrew Pike and Ross Cooper, ''Australian Film 1900–1977: A Guide to Feature Film Production'', Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1998, 24〕〔("PUBLIC AMUSEMENTS. KING'S PICTURES." ''Albany Advertiser (WA)'' 20 Nov 1912: 3 ) accessed 14 December 2011〕 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「The Tide of Death」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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