The Lady Outlaw
1911 film by Alfred Rolfe
The Lady Outlaw is a 1911 Australian silent film set in Van Diemen's Land during convict days.
It was also known as By His Excellency's Command or By His Excellency's Command, a Tale of a Lady Outlaw.
It is considered a lost film.
The film was from the Australian Photoplay Company.
Plot
In the 1860s, Dorothy's lover is transported to Hobart for committing a crime. She follows him there only to discover he has been assigned as a servant to a villainous land owner and has escaped to the hills, where police believe he has died.
Dorothy decides to seek revenge and leads a group of escape convicts on raids on the land owner's house. She then discovers her lover is alive and married to another woman. She decides to remain a bushranger until she gets involved in a shoot out by the sea.
After a duel between a lieutenant and her last surviving follower, she is captured by police.
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