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{{Infobox film
| name           = The Rebel
| image          = The Rebel film poster.jpg
| caption        = Poster from Tasmanian release of film
| director       = [[J. E. Mathews]]
| producer       =
| writer         = [[J. E. Mathews]]
| based_on       = story by [[James Bernard Fagan]]
| starring       = [[Allen Doone]]
| music          =
| cinematography = Maurice Bertel<br>[[A. O. Segerberg]]
| editing        =
| studio         = Mathews Photo-Play Company
| distributor    =
| released       = {{Film date|1915|06|26|df=yes}}
| runtime        = 5 reels
| language       = [[Silent film]]<br>English intertitles
| country        = Australia
| budget         =
}}
'''''The Rebel''''' is a 1915 Australian silent film starring [[Allen Doone]]. It is considered a [[lost film]].
==Plot==
The Irish rebel leader Jack Blake is arrested and thrown into gaol by the vindictive Englishman Captain Armstrong. Jack's girlfriend, Eileen, helps him escape and he kills Armstrong in a duel. Jack and Eileen flee to France.
==Cast==
*[[Allen Doone]] as Jack Blake
*[[Edna Keeley]] as Eileen McDermott
*Frank Cullinane as Squire McDermott
*Onslow Edgeworth as Captain Armstrong
*Percy Kehoe as Father Kelly
==Production==
This film was based on a stage show which had been performed on stage since November 1913 by Allen Doone.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article15490488 |title="THE REBELS.". |newspaper=[[The Sydney Morning Herald]] |date=24 November 1913 |access-date=7 June 2012 |page=4 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref>
[[Raymond Longford]] claimed Allen Doone approached him to direct the film but that [[Australasian Films]] would not let the producers rent out their [[Rushcutters Bay Studio]] with Longford attached due to their clashes with Longford resulting from the exhibition of films such as ''The Silence of Dean Maitland''; he was replaced by American John Matthews.<ref name="shirley">Graham Shirley and Brian Adams, ''Australian Cinema: The First Eighty Years'', Currency Press 1989 p 36</ref><ref name="vol">{{cite web|website=National Archives of Australia|title=Bound printed copy of Minutes of Evidence of the Royal Commission on the Moving Picture Industry in Australia (one of two copies)|url=https://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/SearchNRetrieve/Interface/ViewImage.aspx?B=3009445|page=145| publisher   = NAA: A11636, 4/1}}</ref>
It was shot in and around Sydney over six weeks from April to May 1915. The movie only received limited distribution.<ref>Andrew Pike and Ross Cooper, ''Australian Film 1900–1977: A Guide to Feature Film Production'', Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1998, p 53</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article28111851 |title=ALLEN DOONE IN PICTURES. |newspaper=[[The Sydney Morning Herald]] |date=5 June 1915 |access-date=7 June 2012 |page=16 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref>
==References==
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==External links==
* {{IMDb title|0353942}}
*[http://colsearch.nfsa.gov.au/nfsa/search/display/display.w3p;adv=no;group=;groupequals=;holdingType=;page=0;parentid=;query=Id%3A343359;querytype=;rec=0;resCount=10 ''The Rebel''] at [[National Film and Sound Archive]]
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[[Category:Australian black-and-white films]]
[[Category:1915 films]]
[[Category:1915 drama films]]
[[Category:Australian silent feature films]]
[[Category:Lost Australian drama films]]
[[Category:1915 lost films]]
[[Category:Silent Australian drama films]]
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