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It was the seventh Australian 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.
When Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger saddled up for the lead role in 1970’s Ned Kelly, history was meant to bear him somewhere between Pat Garrett And Billy The Kid and a ballsy Irish folk song.
To celebrate the release of the True History of the Kelly Gang in UK cinemas on the 28 February 2020, we are taking a look back at some of the previous film adaptations of the life of historical bushranger and infamous icon Ned Kelly and his gang.
Ned Kelly: Directed by Tony Richardson. With Mick Jagger, Clarissa Kaye-Mason, Mark McManus, Ken Goodlet. The impoverished son of Irish immigrants is pushed by wrongful police persecution into becoming Australia's most notorious bushranger.
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- Biography, Crime, Drama
- Tony Richardson
- 1970-06-25
Richardson's bushranger biopic merely applies a simplistic gloss to the 'outlaw' image already projected onto Jagger by the British media, and his role as the legendary Australian anti-hero...
Edward Kelly, better known as Ned Kelly, was a famous Australian bushranger, known for his illegal and unlawful activities against the ‘Government of Victoria.’ About half of the 25 years of his life was spent either behind bars or in clashes with the police.
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Ned Kelly is the name of a 1970 movie. It was the second Australian feature length movie about Australian bushranger Ned Kelly. The first was The Story of the Kelly Gang made in 1906, the world's first feature movie. Ned Kelly was directed by Tony Richardson, and starred Mick Jagger as Ned Kelly.
