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The movie was part of the Australian "bushranger film" cycle from 1910-1912. [11] [12] ... However most reports put the length of the film at 4,000 feet. Release
The Story of the Kelly Gang (1906), world's first full-length narrative feature film. Australian Western, also known as meat pie Western or kangaroo Western, is a genre of Western-style films or TV series set in the Australian outback or "the bush". Films about bushrangers (sometimes called bushranger films) are included in
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 Legend of Ben Hall started as a Kickstarter [9] crowd-funded 40-minute short film, [10] which exceeded its target production goal of $75,000. [ 11 ] American production company Palmarium LLC joined the project as producers, as did filmmaker Jessica Pearce, who stepped up from production manager to producer as the film geared up for filming.
Between 1900 and 1914, one hundred and sixteen bushranger films were made in Australia. [17] Most, if not all, of these films focused on the lives of white male bushrangers. [18] A few of the most significant bushranger films made in this period include Thunderbolt (1910), Captain Midnight, the Bush King (1911), multiple adaptations of the ...
John Gavin had starred in and directed two bushranger biopics for H. A. Forsyth, Thunderbolt and Moonlite before leaving Forsyth and going into business for himself with his own company, JG Films. [10] He made two more bushranger biopics, Ben Hall and His Gang followed by Frank Gardiner, which was announced on 9 January 1911. Gavin's wife Agnes ...
[10] Among the last bushrangers was the Kelly gang in Victoria, led by Ned Kelly, Australia's most famous bushranger. After murdering three policemen in a shootout in 1878, the gang was outlawed, and after raiding towns and robbing banks into 1879, earned the distinction of having the largest reward ever placed on the heads of bushrangers.