Greenhide

Greenhide
Directed by	Charles Chauvel
Produced by	Charles Chauvel
Written by	Charles Chauvel Frank White (titles)
Starring	Elsa Chauvel (as Elsie Sylvaney) Bruce Gordon Frank Thorn Irma Deardon
Release date	20 November 1926
Running time	8,000 feet
Country	Australia
Language	English
Budget	£3,800
Box office	₤1,000

Greenhide is a 1926 Australian film directed by Charles Chauvel.

Only part of the film survives today.

High society girl Marjory Paton (Elsa Chauvel) leaves the city to live on her father's cattle property, run by "Greenhide Gavin" (Bruce Gordon). She carries romantic notions of the bush, of "being swung to the saddle by big brown arms", but Greenhide Gavin is initially only annoyed by her presence. Greenhide contains a blossoming romance, and the thwarting of a plot to steal cattle.

Greenhide was Charles Chauvel's second film, following The Moth of Moonbi (1926), and his final silent film. Chauvel scouted his leading lady, then Elsie May Wilcox, after seeing her in a stage musical called Crackers at the Cremorne Theatre in Brisbane, Queensland. Though she was reluctant at first to audition, Chauvel convinced her to perform a screentest, and ultimately offered her the role. The pair began a romantic relationship over the course of filming, and Charles and Elsa were married on 5 June 1927, at St James Church, Sydney, the ceremony officiated by Charles' brother, the Reverend John Chauvel.

On-location filming took place at Walloon Station in Dawson Valley, Queensland. The production encampment, a collection of tents accommodating twenty people, was informally named "Camp Greenhide" by locals. Interior filming took place in a studio in Brisbane. Chauvel played a phonograph recording of "In a Monastery Garden" to induce realistic tears from Elsa Chauvel without the need to use glycerine drops.

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