The Kelly Gang (film)

The Kelly Gang
Godfrey Cass as Ned Kelly
Directed byHarry Southwell
Written byHarry Southwell
Produced byHarry Southwell
StarringGodfrey Cass
Victor Upton-Brown
Horace Crawford
CinematographyCharles Herschell
Production
company
Southwell Screen Plays
Release date
  • 21 February 1920 (1920-02-21)
Running time
7,500 feet
CountryAustralia
LanguagesSilent film
English intertitles
Budget£450[1]
Box office£20,000[1]

The Kelly Gang is an Australian feature-length film about the Australian bush ranger, Ned Kelly. The film was released in 1920, and is the second film to be based on the life of Ned Kelly, the first being The Story of the Kelly Gang, released in 1906.[2]

Cast

Adele and Maud were daughters of actor F. C. Appleton. Robert Inman was married to Adele.

Production

Filming took place in late 1919 in a temporary studio in the Melbourne suburb of Coburg with additional scenes shot on the outskirts of Melbourne at Croydon and Warburton.[3] Cameron's store in Kilsyth was used for the bank in Euroa.[4]

Release

At the time the New South Wales government had banned films on bushranging but this movie escaped it, most likely due to its opening warning against breaking the law. The movie was reasonably successful.[2]

Other Ned Kelly films

References

  1. ^ a b "£100,000 SPENT." Advocate (Burnie, Tas) 5 Jan 1928: 6 accessed 6 December 2011
  2. ^ a b Andrew Pike and Ross Cooper, Australian Film 1900–1977: A Guide to Feature Film Production, Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1998, 96.
  3. ^ "In the Theatres". The Mail. Adelaide: National Library of Australia. 1 May 1920. p. 6. Retrieved 25 July 2012.
  4. ^ Muriel McGivern (1967). A History of Croydon, a second volume. p. 84.


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