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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
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.
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.
The genre showed how the bushrangers' intimate connection with the bush allowed them to skirt the law and engage in outlaw activity. [12] Many of the films made before the ban glorified bushrangers, rather than making them seem criminal. [13] Early bushranger films include Bushranging in Northern Queensland and Robbery of a Mail Coach by ...
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)
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Howe then became the leader of the bushrangers, and although two of the gang were caught and executed, many robberies ensued. In February 1817 two more bushrangers were shot and another captured, and in the following month Howe left the party accompanied only by an Aboriginal girl. On one occasion, finding the military close on his heels, he ...