Kelly, der Bandit

Kelly, der Bandit (1970)

Ned Kelly

Die wahre Lebensgeschichte des legendären australischen Outlaws

Ned Kelly ist der Sohn eines irischen Australien-Einwanderers. Als Neds Mutter aus nichtigem Anlass verhaftet wird, rottet er sich mit seinen Brüdern in den Wäldern zusammen und führt einen Guerillakrieg gegen die Polizei. Die Kelly-Bande zieht die Sympathien der unterdrückten irischen Minderheit auf sich. Bald kommt es zum offenen Schlagabtausch, und Neds Leute erliegen der Übermacht des Staates.

Erscheinungsdatum
1970-06-10
TMDB
4.8 / 10 (28)
Laufzeit
1 Std. 46 Min.
Genres
Drama, Action, Western
Regie
Tony Richardson

Besetzung

Wissenswertes

  • Einspielergebnis: 808.000 AU$

Ned Kelly is a 1970 British-Australian biographical bushranger film. It was the seventh feature film version of the story of 19th-century Australian bushranger Ned Kelly, and was the first Kelly film to be shot in colour.

Production

In the early 1960s, Karel Reisz and Albert Finney announced plans to make a film about Ned Kelly from a screenplay by David Storey. Finney and Reisz flew to Australia in October 1962 and spent ten weeks picking locations and doing research.

In January 1963, it was reported the film would star Finney and Angela Lansbury. The movie was meant to be Finney's next project after Tom Jones (1963) and filming was to start in March 1963.

The British arm of Columbia Pictures agreed to put up the entire budget. However, British labour union regulations required a mostly British crew, and the cost of putting them up in Australia put the budget beyond what Columbia were willing to pay. (Tom Jones had yet to be released.) Finney and Reisz went on to make Night Must Fall (1964) instead.

Following this, Finney was still meant to make the film. However, he and Reisz eventually dropped out.

The project passed on to Tom Jones director Tony Richardson, who wrote the script in collaboration with Ian Jones, a Melbourne writer and producer of TV drama and expert on Ned Kelly. According to Kevin Brownlow, Ian McKellen was originally set to play the lead but the producers went for Mick Jagger.

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