“The Circus which arrived at
Glenrowan, Oh please, Robert Drewe, whom wrote the book in which the
movie was based upon, simply added the circus when Ned Kelly (the real
one) suggested bailing up a nearby circus to entertain the
captives in the Glenrowan Inn”
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Welcome to the section Joe in Film. Here
you will find reviews and releases of movies to do with the notorious
Kelly gang, ranging from 1906, right up until 2003 and beyond.
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The mistakes didn't stop there,
some of the major ones included:
1/ 200 policeman got off of the special police train at
Glenrowan. History proves there was only 24, this includes
policemen and news reporters etc that got off of the train on
Monday June 28th 1880.
2/ Curnow, the local Glenrowan
school teacher, escaped from the Glenrowan Inn, and stopped the
special police train, when really, Ned Kelly himself released
Curnow late June 27th 1880.
I can't express my disgust on this
film over my website, I was very disappointed by this movie,
this was their only chance to make a good Kelly film for the
next 30-40 odd years.
Perhaps I am too much of a "Kelly
Fanatic" to fairly rate this film, and I probably have been to
harsh, but it was BAD.
By far the most comprehensive film ever made about the
Kelly gang, and Joe in particular was written and
produced by the worlds number Kelly authority, the man,
Ian Jones.
Ian, has had a lifetime of study into the
Kelly legend,
and has uncovered some astonishing facts and figures,
that would have never been discovered.
The cast of The Last
Outlaw includes: John Jarret as Ned Kelly,
Steven
Bisley as Joe Byrne, Sigrid Thornton as Kate Kelly,
David Bradshaw as Wild Wright, Lewis Fitz-Gerald as Tom
Lloyd, Elaine Cusick as Mrs. Kelly, Peter Hehir as Aaron
Sherritt and Gerard Kennedy as Harry Power.
The last outlaw is not really a movie, but a mini-series
screened on channel 7 over a period of 4 days, and 8
wonderful hours. Unfortunately the Last outlaw is hard
to come by; it was never released on VHS or DVD.
In summing up, this is the
BEST Kelly "film" out there!
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