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| starring = [[Vera Pearce]]
| music =
| cinematography = [[Lacey Percival]]<ref>{{Citation
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| title=The Versatile Cameraman.
| journal=Everyones.
| year=1920
| issue=Vol.3 No.158 (14 March 1923)
| location=Sydney
| publisher=Everyones Ltd
| url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-569876460
| id=nla.obj-569876460
| access-date=4 December 2023
| via=Trove
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| editing =
| studio = Australian Famous Feature Company
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The film was given a preview in front of several notables in January 1916, including the Governor General and acting Prime Minister.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2109543 |title=STORY OF NURSE CAVELL. |newspaper=[[The Argus (Melbourne)|The Argus]] |location=Melbourne |date=12 February 1916 |accessdate=25 February 2012 |page=19 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}</ref>
Reviews were generally good<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article59379243 |title=ENGLAND'S HEROINE. |newspaper=[[The Mail (Adelaide)|The Mail]] |location=Adelaide |date=19 February 1916 |accessdate=25 February 2012 |page=7 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}</ref>
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| title=SUNDRY SHOWS.
| journal=The bulletin.
| year=1880
| issn=0007-4039
| series=John Ryan Comic Collection (Specific issues).
| issue=Vol. 37 No. 1877 (3 Feb 1916)
| location=Sydney, N.S.W
| publisher=John Haynes and J.F. Archibald
| url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-693678309
| id=nla.obj-693678309
| access-date=4 December 2023
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''Triad'' magazine wrote:
<blockquote>The houses are obviously Australian, and not Belgian—and many of the players are obviously Australian too. Miss Vera Pearce, who plays the nurse with
much womanly grace and dignity, is surprisingly good if a trifle too statuesque. Mr. George Portus, who only appears for a minute or so, makes a sufficiently convincing doctor...In the story as faked there are many improbabilities... There is too much deliberate catering to blood-blind British prejudice. Why shouldn’t we admit the truth about Nurse Cavell?... this is not the sort of picture that should be made in Australia. Being made here, it was obviously made to catch pennies. Australian pictures should be Australian in the true sense.<ref>{{Citation
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| title=The Cinema: Notes and Notions.
| journal=The Triad : a journal devoted to literacy, pictorial, musical and dramatic art.
| year=1915
| edition=Australian ed.
| issue=Vol. 1 No. 6 (10 March 1916)
| location=Sydney
| publisher=
| url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-1245808231
| id=nla.obj-1245808231
| access-date=4 December 2023
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}} </ref></blockquote>
===Box Office===
and the film was very successful at the box office, achieving release in the US, South Africa, Canada,<ref>[https://archive.org/stream/movpic28chal#page/n647/mode/2up/search/australia "Nurse Cavell Picture Coming Soon"], ''Motion Picture News'', May 1916, retrieved 23 November 2014</ref> India<ref>"BOMBAY ENGAGEMENTS: TODAY" ''The Times of India'' [New Delhi] 16 May 1916: 5.</ref> and the UK.
By April 1917 it had made £10,000.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article103828230 |title=PAYING THE TAX. |newspaper=[[The Mirror of Australia]] |location=Sydney |date=7 April 1917 |accessdate=13 November 2014 |page=14 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}</ref>
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Gavin said the film made over £20,000.<ref name="every"/>
The film was reissued in Australia in 1928 following the banning of another movie on the topic ''Dawn''.<ref>{{Citation
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| title=NEWS IN HEADLINES
| journal=Everyones.
| year=1920
| issue=Vol.9 No.438 (25 July 1928)
| location=Sydney
| publisher=Everyones Ltd
| url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-587200867
| id=nla.obj-587200867
| access-date=4 December 2023
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}} </ref><ref>{{Citation
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| title=Poverty Point
| journal=The bulletin.
| year=1880
| issn=0007-4039
| series=John Ryan Comic Collection (Specific issues).
| issue=Vol. 49 No. 2512 (4 Apr 1928)
| location=Sydney, N.S.W
| publisher=John Haynes and J.F. Archibald
| url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-600273781
| id=nla.obj-600273781
| access-date=4 December 2023
| via=Trove
}} </ref>
==References==
{{Reflist}}
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