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Pages in category "Bushranger films" The following 40 pages are in this category, out of 40 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Attack on the Gold ...
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 ]
A bushranger on horseback being chased by the police in Hard-pressed (Flight of a Bushranger), painted by S. T. Gill, c. 1853. The earliest documented use of the term appears in a February 1805 issue of The Sydney Gazette, which reports that a cart had been stopped between Sydney and Hawkesbury by three men "whose appearance sanctioned the suspicion of their being bush-rangers". [3]
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. By the 1820s, the term had evolved to refer to those who took up " robbery under arms " as a way of life, using the bush as their base.
The two actors, who have worked in six films together, have a 15-year age gap between them: Cooper was 37 and Lawrence was 22 when the movie was released. Related: Best Hollywood Movies About ...
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All films about bushranging, like The Tide of Death, for instance. [1] The Australian censors were concerned about the effects of such films on female audiences. [1] The sympathetic telling of the bushrangers' stories were also deemed to hold the police up to ridicule. [2] All films are now unbanned. [citation needed] 1928–1941 (chronological)
Hall led a raid on Keightley's house. Warned by his son, Cyril, of the bushrangers' approach, Mr. Keightley accompanied by his wife and a friend, Dr. Pechey, barricaded themselves in the house, where they resisted for six hours. The bushrangers drew straws to see who should blow the lock of the door open.