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The impoverished son of Irish immigrants is pushed by wrongful police persecution into becoming Australia's most notorious bushranger.The impoverished son of Irish immigrants is pushed by wrongful police persecution into becoming Australia's most notorious bushranger.The impoverished son of Irish immigrants is pushed by wrongful police persecution into becoming Australia's most notorious bushranger.
Clarissa Kaye-Mason
- Mrs. Kelly
- (as Clarissa Kaye)
- Director
- Writers
- Tony Richardson
- Ian Jones
- Alexander Buzo(uncredited)
- All cast & crew
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Did you know
- TriviaMick Jagger wrote the song "Brown Sugar" while filming this movie.
- Crazy creditsThe original opening United Artists logo is in black and white.
- ConnectionsFeatured in The Rolling Stones: Rolling On (1991)
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The cinematic equivalent of a folk ballad
This film has been criticised too harshly, because of Mick Jagger's lack of experience as an actor and it's failure to stick to verifiable facts. But treat it as the cinematic equivalent of a folk ballad and you'll have a good time with it. Just as you wouldn't hire an opera singer to sing a folk song, you don't need a professional actor to play the lead in a rough-and-ready entertainment about a rough-and-ready character. By the time one gets to the speeded up segment that accompanies Waylon Jenning's singing of Shel Silverstein's "Blame it on the Kelly's" it becomes clear this is not a film that is intended as a serious examination of history. Like the song "The Wild Colonial Boy" which Jagger sings in one of the more memorable scenes in the movie, this is popular entertainment to be enjoyed with a few beers. Taken as such it is very enjoyable, with catchy songs, evocative cinematography and Jagger being very much the lovable, charismatic rabble-rouser he was in real-life at the time. And what matters in a folk ballad is not the truth, but the legend.
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- Also known as
- Kelly, der Bandit
- Filming locations
- Braidwood, New South Wales, Australia(Exterior)
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- Budget
- £1,000,000 (estimated)
- Runtime1 hour 40 minutes
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.66 : 1
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