Mad Dog Morgan
Summary:
Dennis Hopper plays the title character in this true story of a 19th-century Australian gold-digger who is pressed into a life of crime. A six-year stint in jail doesn't provide reform, but does introduce him to an Aboriginal partner-in-crime (David Gulpilil). The duo then proceed to terrorize the province of New South Wales with no lack of violence. The TV version was retitled M... Full Summary >>
Cast:
Dennis Hopper - (Daniel Morgan)
Jack Thompson - (Detective Manwaring)
David Gulpilil - (Billy)
Frank Thring - (Superintendent Cobham)
Michael Pate - (Superintendent Winch)
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Review:
This intense variation on the historical biopic offers more grit and offbeat flourishes than one might expect from this kind of film. The story it tells works both as an outlaw-as-antihero story and also as an indictment of Australian colonialism (fittingly, the hero's partner in crime is the most dispossessed of Australians, an Aborigine). The nar... Continue >>
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