The Adventures of Algy

The Adventures of Algy
Claude Dampier in still from the film
Directed by	Beaumont Smith
Produced by	Beaumont Smith
Written by	Beaumont Smith
Starring	Claude Dampier
Cinematography	Lacey Percival Frank Stewart Syd Taylor Charles Barton
Production company	Beaumont Smith's Productions
Release date	20 June 1925
Running time	97 mins
Country	Australia
Language	Silent

The Adventures of Algy is a 1925 Australian film comedy from director Beaumont Smith about a "silly ass" Englishman (Claude Dampier) who inherits a sheep station in New Zealand. It is an unofficial follow up to Hullo Marmaduke (1924), which also starred Dampier.

Unlike most of Smith's silent films, most of the movie survives today.

Algy (Claude Dampier) is an Englishman who travels to New Zealand to claim a sheep station he has inherited. He falls in love with a neighbour, Kiwi McHill (Bathie Stuart), then travels to Australia. He runs into Kiwi again, using dances she has learned from her Maori friends in a Sydney revue. When he returns to New Zealand he strikes oil on his farm and he and Kiwi are married.

The film was shot on location in New Zealand (Wellington, Rotarua) and Sydney (Circular Quay) during early 1925. There were two dance sequences, one in a Maori village and the other in a Sydney theatre, plus extensive scenic photography of New Zealand.

Dampier later married his co-star, Billie Carlyle.

Reviews for the film were generally positive. Film writers Andrew Pike and Ross Cooper wrote that:

The film... reveals a heavy reliance on titles to propel the insubstantial plot along, and frequently the images are little more than illustrations for the printed text.

Smith was becoming exhausted with film production and concentrated on distribution and exhibition instead over the next eight years. He returned to directing with The Hayseeds (1933).