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Last Outlaw |
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most accurate and lavishly presented story of the
Ned Kelly saga has to be Ian Jones and Bronwyn Binns'
mini-series The
Last Outlaw made in 1980 by
Pegasus Productions and Channel Seven Melbourne.
Filmed on location in and around Kelly Country, it
starred John Jarratt 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. |
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We
always knew it would come to this, didn't we? Not just
another fight. It is got to be war.
Ned Kelly to Tom Lloyd prior
to the siege of Glenrowan |
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If
my lips teach the public that men are made mad by
bad treatment, and if the police are taught that
they may exasperate to madness men they persecute
and ill treat, my life will not be entirely thrown
away.
Ned Kelly after his capture in 1880 |
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I
could have thrown a different light on this case. I do
not fear death, I fear it as little as to drink a
cup of tea.
Ned to Judge Redmond Barry before the sentence of
death was passed |
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The
Last Outlaw: a loving look at Ned Kelly
October 15, 1980 |
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Steve
Hart descendant Paul O'Keefe has alerted me to yet
another ridiculous Kelly Gang claim (the latest in a line
of many). Not just content to see Dan escape, this time
around Steve also made a bolt from the Glenrowan Inn
fire (so why was Ned heading back when they had both left?).
Lucky Steve also headed north where he lived a long and
happy life in Queensland under the name of Billy Meade. Apparently
this Meade character confessed about his double identity
on his deathbed in 1938. Well, in that case, it
