Carbine's Heritage is a 1927 New Zealand film created by Ted Coubray who directed, produced and wrote the screenplay. The film is now presumed to be lost.

Carbine's Heritage
Directed byTed Coubray
Written byTed Coubray
Produced byTed Coubray
StarringTed Preston
Queenie Grahame
CinematographyTed Coubray
Release date
  • 1927 (1927)
LanguageEnglish

Plot edit

A young man finds a loose stray colt near Hamilton which is not advertised for. So after a year he enters the colt in a show at which the owner, a young lady who comes to the show with her father, claims it. They come to an arrangement about the horse, which is a descendant of the famous horse Carbine. Then the horse is stolen by a pair of villains when being trained. The climatic end sequence was filmed at the Christmas 1926 Auckland Cup meeting.

Cast edit

  • Ted Preston ... Tim Hogan
  • Queenie Grahame ... Alice Wylie
  • Stuart Douglas ... Harold Wylie
  • Pat O'Connor ... Tom Patten
  • Cook Brothers ... Two crooks

References edit

  • New Zealand Film 1912-1996 by Helen Martin & Sam Edwards p37 (1997, Oxford University Press, Auckland) ISBN 019 558336 1