I’m going to move through the Kelly movies movie right up to 1960:
The Kelly Gang (1920)
When The Kellys Were Out (1923)
When The Kellys Rode (1934)
The Glenrowan Affair (1951)
Stringybark Massacre (1960)
The Kelly Gang (1920)
One Image (above)
From Iron Outlaw http://www.ironoutlaw.com/html/movies.html
Director: Harry Southwell
Cast: Godfrey Cass … as Ned Kelly
“Welsh-born filmmaker Charles Southwell had a vision: to present the great drama of the Kelly saga on the Australian screen. He laboured at this task for 15 years, producing three films of indifferent quality along the way – The Kelly Gang, When the Kellys Were Out, and When The Kellys Rode. Southwell’s endeavours were hampered by political sensitivities, with any pro-Kelly material liable to be banned.”
When The Kellys Were Out (1923)
No images – No posters.
Australian State Records Website: http://gallery.records.nsw.gov.au/index.php/galleries/50-years-at-state-records-nsw/5-05/
Australian film censorship in the 1920s:
“…no official encouragement whatever should be given to moving picture promoters to attempt to make a hero of a criminal.”
In accordance with the relevant regulations, the film had to be submitted for approval by the Censor Board. As this correspondence shows, despite some differences of opinion, permission to screen the film for the public was not granted, even though the company had made a number of changes following initial rejection by the Board.
The authorities were well aware that the exploits of the gang endured in the public imagination, despite the passage of forty years. The Board’s concerns about the possible glorification of outlaws (and consequent ‘corruption of public morals’) meant that it could be difficult to obtain permission to screen any film that featured bushrangers, particularly the Kellys.
When The Kellys Rode (1934)
Several excellent Posters
The Glenrowan Affair (1951)
No posters – No images
The Glenrowan Affair – From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:
It was Rupert Kathner’s final film and stars VFL star Bob Chitty as Kelly. It was known as one of the worst films ever made in Australia.
The film was given its first screening in Victoria at Benalla. Townspeople were worried relatives of the Kellys would cause trouble. However, the screening was accompanied by audience laughter. Nonetheless the screening raised ₤400 for charity.
Reviews: – From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:
“This near-unendurable stretch of laboured, amateurish film-making is something that the developing Australian film industry will wish to forget-swiftly and finally … A film made on a shoe-string (as this obviously was) could still achieve a little crude vitality. This one isn’t even robust enough for the unconscious humour (and there is plenty of that) to be really enjoyable. The script is dreary, the photography more often out of-focus than in, the editing is unimaginative and the acting petrified. It would be misplaced kindness, in fact, to try and ferret out a redeeming feature.”
Stringybark Massacre (1960)
No posters – No images
Director: Gary Shead
Garry Shead’s avante-guard filmmaking techniques result in a stylish re-creation of the murder of three police officers at Stringybark, Victoria by Australian bush outlaw, Ned Kelly.
NEXT:
Dusters Down Under Part 4: The Kelly Movies 1960 to present …
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Very cool old posters 🙂
Yeah .. too bad the other movies never had any. Wonder what happened to them?
I’m also trying to remember why I thot people might be interested? LOL!!!
No matter – it brings us up to a couple that I think ARE interesting: the Mick Jagger version and the last one with Heath Ledger and Orlando Bloom.
Onward.