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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 ]
Woodcut print of the bushranger Dan "Mad Dog" Morgan. The success of The Story of the Kelly Gang encouraged filmmakers to produce even more bushranger films. [16] 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]
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.
[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.
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However the movie sold well around the world – including a $300,000 sale to the US – and achieved good reviews. [ 1 ] Mora tried for several years to set up other films in Australia – including the movie that became Newsfront (1978), an adaptation of For the Term of His Natural Life and a science fiction story called The Black Hole ...