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Articles relating to bushrangers, originally escaped convicts in the early years of the British settlement of Australia who used the bush as a refuge to hide from the authorities.
Another British film production house, Rank, made Robbery Under Arms in 1957. [5] One of the prominent post-war productions made in Australia was the technicolour Western, Kangaroo . This was a big budget (800,000 pounds) film made by 20th Century Fox in 1952, starring imported stars Maureen O'Hara and Peter Lawford . [ 6 ]
Ned Kelly is a 1970 British-Australian biographical bushranger film. It was the seventh feature film version of the story of 19th-century Australian bushranger Ned Kelly, [5] and is notable for being the first Kelly film to be shot in colour. The film was directed by Tony Richardson, and starred Mick Jagger in the title role.
The film was made during an era when plays about bushrangers were extremely popular, and there were, by one estimate, six contemporaneous theatre companies giving performances of the Kelly gang story. [6] Historian Ian Jones suggests bushranger stories still had an "indefinable appeal" for Australians in the early 20th century. [15]
The Legend of Ben Hall is a 2016 Australian bushranger film.Written and directed by Matthew Holmes, it is based on the exploits of bushranger Ben Hall and his gang. The film stars Jack Martin in the title role, Jamie Coffa as John Gilbert, and William Lee as John Dunn.
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Before the bushranger ban, bushranging had been the most common topic for Australian films. After the ban, film production in Australia decreased as creators lost their most popular genre and the audiences it drew to the theatres. [18] Unsurprisingly, the new censorship forces were met with discontent from the Australian film industry.