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- Captain Thunderbolt, directed by Cecil Holmes in 1951, is a classic Australian tale of the rebel as hero. It’s the story of Australia's longest-roaming bushranger, who escaped incarceration on Cockatoo Island to become the ‘gentleman bushranger’ who never shot or killed the people he robbed.
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Captain Thunderbolt is a 1953 Australian action film from director Cecil Holmes about the bushranger Captain Thunderbolt. It was one of the few all-Australian films of the 1950s. [4]
Sep 27, 2024 · Captain Thunderbolt, directed by Cecil Holmes in 1951, is a classic Australian tale of the rebel as hero. It’s the story of Australia's longest-roaming bushranger, who escaped incarceration on Cockatoo Island to become the ‘gentleman bushranger’ who never shot or killed the people he robbed.
One of the films that has long been on the NFSA’s Most Wanted list has been found. Captain Thunderbolt, directed by Cecil Holmes in 1951, is a classic Australian tale of the rebel as hero.
Apr 26, 2020 · Holmes is most well-known to contemporary commentators on Australian cinema, if at all, for these highly idiosyncratic features, Captain Thunderbolt (1953) and Three in One (1956), two of only a very small number of truly local feature films made during the 1950s.
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Captain Thunderbolt was a classic Australian film from the 1950s. The National Film and Sound Archive of Australia (NFSA) is on the hunt for the original image and sound negatives - have you seen them?
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Frederick Wordsworth Ward (c. 1835 – 25 May 1870), better known by the self-styled pseudonym of Captain Thunderbolt, was an Australian bushranger renowned for escaping from Cockatoo Island, and also for his reputation as the "gentleman bushranger" and his lengthy survival, being the longest-roaming bushranger in Australian history.
Its centrepiece is Holmes’ bold and visually adventurous first feature, Captain Thunderbolt (1953), an expansive and exciting account of the social, political and economic conditions that lead to bushranging.
