Post by Zone Fighter on Dec 19, 2006 2:22:35 GMT -8
Mad Dog Morgan (1976)
Dennis Hopper - Daniel Morgan
Jack Thompson - Detective Mainwaring
David Gulpilil - Billy
Frank Thring - Superintendant Cobham
Michael Pate - Superintendant Winch
Wallace Eaton - MacPherson
Bill Hunter - Sergeant Smith
John Hargreaves - Baylis
Martin Harris - Wendlan
Robin Ramsay - Roget
Graeme Blundell - Italian Jack
Gregory Apps - Arthur
Liza Lee-Atkinson - Barmaid
Elaine Baillie - Farm Girl
Don Barkham - Morrow
Kurt Beimel - Dr. Dobbyn
David Bracks - McLean
Liddy Clark - Alice
Peter Collingwood - Judge Barry
Peter Cummins - Gibson
John Derum - Evans
Gerry Duggan - Martin
Max Fairchild - Prisoner
Chuck Faulkner - Sergeant Montford
Judith Fisher - Mrs. Warby
Alan Hardy - Bob
Isobel Harley - Mrs. Macpherson
David John - John Evans
Norman Kaye - Swagman
Hugh Keays-Byrne - Simon
Kevin Leslie - Maples
Robert McDarra - Parole Officer
David Mitchell - Haley
Christopher Pate - Roget's Assistant
Grant Page - Sergeant Maginnity
Philip Ross - Watson
Bruce Spence - Heriot
Peter Thompson - Mayor
Roger Ward - Trooper
Ken Weaver - Bond
Harold Baigent - Extra
Clare Balmford - Old Whitley Woman
Natalie Bate - Young Whitley Woman
An Australian film about a real life Australian outlaw of the 1860s. Opening theme is provided by a digeridoo and howling wolves.
Some people never learn.
Irishman Daniel Morgan goes to Australian hoping to find gold. He doesn't find any. He turns to robbery. He's caught and sentenced to 12 years hard labor, first 2 chained. In the prison M, for malefactor is branded on his right palm. He's put in a cell with other men who rape him (fortuantly its implied not shown). Six years later he's paroled for good behaivor. Blamed for the theft of a horse he's shot by the shotgun toating rancher (whether he was guilty or not is not made clear by this movie). He gets away wounded. He's found by Billy, an aborigine who becomes his friend. After his wounds heal Daniel Morgan apparenlty not having learned for his 6 years of imprisonment becomes a highway robber or in Australian terminology a "bushranger".
Like Jessie James or Billy the Kid in America, "Mad Dog" Morgan is made out to be a hero by the poor. There is nothing heroic about theives and murderers. In the end he's shot down like a mad dog.
Dennis Hopper - Daniel Morgan
Jack Thompson - Detective Mainwaring
David Gulpilil - Billy
Frank Thring - Superintendant Cobham
Michael Pate - Superintendant Winch
Wallace Eaton - MacPherson
Bill Hunter - Sergeant Smith
John Hargreaves - Baylis
Martin Harris - Wendlan
Robin Ramsay - Roget
Graeme Blundell - Italian Jack
Gregory Apps - Arthur
Liza Lee-Atkinson - Barmaid
Elaine Baillie - Farm Girl
Don Barkham - Morrow
Kurt Beimel - Dr. Dobbyn
David Bracks - McLean
Liddy Clark - Alice
Peter Collingwood - Judge Barry
Peter Cummins - Gibson
John Derum - Evans
Gerry Duggan - Martin
Max Fairchild - Prisoner
Chuck Faulkner - Sergeant Montford
Judith Fisher - Mrs. Warby
Alan Hardy - Bob
Isobel Harley - Mrs. Macpherson
David John - John Evans
Norman Kaye - Swagman
Hugh Keays-Byrne - Simon
Kevin Leslie - Maples
Robert McDarra - Parole Officer
David Mitchell - Haley
Christopher Pate - Roget's Assistant
Grant Page - Sergeant Maginnity
Philip Ross - Watson
Bruce Spence - Heriot
Peter Thompson - Mayor
Roger Ward - Trooper
Ken Weaver - Bond
Harold Baigent - Extra
Clare Balmford - Old Whitley Woman
Natalie Bate - Young Whitley Woman
An Australian film about a real life Australian outlaw of the 1860s. Opening theme is provided by a digeridoo and howling wolves.
Some people never learn.
Irishman Daniel Morgan goes to Australian hoping to find gold. He doesn't find any. He turns to robbery. He's caught and sentenced to 12 years hard labor, first 2 chained. In the prison M, for malefactor is branded on his right palm. He's put in a cell with other men who rape him (fortuantly its implied not shown). Six years later he's paroled for good behaivor. Blamed for the theft of a horse he's shot by the shotgun toating rancher (whether he was guilty or not is not made clear by this movie). He gets away wounded. He's found by Billy, an aborigine who becomes his friend. After his wounds heal Daniel Morgan apparenlty not having learned for his 6 years of imprisonment becomes a highway robber or in Australian terminology a "bushranger".
Like Jessie James or Billy the Kid in America, "Mad Dog" Morgan is made out to be a hero by the poor. There is nothing heroic about theives and murderers. In the end he's shot down like a mad dog.