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Back in June, brother-fellow-worker Lefty E interrupted his oppressively monomaniacal posting about Portuguese colonial forts in Asia to recommend that jewel of Australian silent film, the Song of the Sentimental Bloke—the 1919 version of CJ Dennis’s poem.

He wasn’t wrong. It’s got high drama, police brutality and highly stoushful arse-kicking, and it even ends with a wedding. And it’s being shown, musically accompanied, in Sydney on the 18th.