The Bloke from Freeman’s Bay
Hayward's first film, a two-reel comedy premiered at the West End theatre in Ponsonby,October 1921
|
Rewi’s Last Stand
Based on events in the New Zealand Wars, battle scenes were enacted by members of the Maori Battlion, 1940
|
Bush Cinderella
A local melodrama starring the second Miss New Zealand and made on a shoestring budget of 700 pounds, 1928
|
Rewi’s Last Stand
Described by one critic as a ‘spectacle of courage’ and a ‘rare departure from the denigrating representation of Maori, typical of the period’, 1925
|
My Lady of the Cave
Based on a newspaper serial that had been published across the country, 1922
|
Rewi’s Last Stand
Based on events in the New Zealand Wars. a fairly sympathetic approach to both sides of the conflict was used in their telling, 1925
|
