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Ned Kelly has progressed from outlaw to national hero in a century, and to international icon in a further 20 years. The still-enigmatic, slightly saturnine and ever-ambivalent bushranger is the undisputed, if not universally admired, national symbol of Australia.
According to academic Richard Fotheringham, "Espinasse’s play is radically different from any other" anout Ned Kelly "and allows Ned to survive and go free; he plans to marry his sweetheart Marion Lee, while Kate Kelly assists his escape by agreeing to marry the only police officer who knows Ned is still alive — if he keeps silent." [6]
Actor portraying Ned Kelly in an authentic suit of the Kelly gang's armour, which was loaned to the filmmakers and used in the film. Ned Kelly's capture. Film historian Ina Bertrand suggests that the tone of The Story of the Kelly Gang is "one of sorrow, depicting Ned Kelly and his gang as the last of the bushrangers." Bertrand identifies ...
A replica of Ned Kelly's armour, designed for the 2003 film Ned Kelly starring Heath Ledger in the title role and now in the collection of the Australian Centre for the Moving Image Ned Kelly was a 19th-century Australian bushranger and outlaw whose life has inspired numerous works in the arts and popular culture, especially in his home country ...
The Inner History of the Kelly Gang is a 1929 Australian biography of Ned Kelly and his gang by J. J. Kenneally. [1] For a time it was considered the most authorotative version of Kelly's life. [2] The book took a very sympathetic point of view towards Kelly and was highly critical of the police. [3] [4]
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 Last Outlaw is a 1980 Australian four-part television miniseries based on the life of Ned Kelly.It was shot from February to May 1980 [2] and the end of its original broadcast, in October–November 1980, coincided with the centenary of Ned Kelly's death.
Australian artist Sidney Nolan painted numerous Ned Kelly works, beginning with his now-iconic 1946–47 series, which Nolan later said was inspired by "Kelly's own words, and Rousseau, and sunlight". The Jerilderie Letter in particular "fascinated [Nolan] with their blend of poetry and political engagement".