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Country
  
Australia

Director
  
Raymond Menmuir

Language
  
English

Release date
  
17 July 1963 (Sydney)

Ballad for One Gun is a 1963 Australian television film about Ned Kelly broadcast on ABC. It was originally aired 17 July 1963 in Sydney and shown at later dates in other parts of Australia. It was written by Phillip Grenville Mann.

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Plot

The story of Ned Kelly which made him out to be "a dangerous embryo dictator, murderously vindictive and_swaggeringly brutal in his hour of power."

Cast

  • John Bell as Ned Kelly
  • Neil Fitzpatrick as Aaron Sherritt
  • Colin Gorman as Joe Byrne
  • Mark McManus as Dan Kelly
  • Gordon Glenwright
  • John Norman as Steve Hart
  • Walter Sullivan as Captain Standish
  • Janice Copeland
  • Janice Dinnen
  • Laurier Lange
  • Reg Livermore
  • Georgie Sterling

    • Production

    The play was acquired by the ABC and BBC in 1961.

    Raymond Menmuir made it after having been in Britain for two years.

    Reception

    The TV critic for Sydney Morning Herald thought there was an uneasy co-existence between the depiction of the Ned Kelly gang "as young hoodlums of today in a dream-setting" and "conventional and "Patriot" type inserts of the haughty, high-cravatted police official Captain Standish" and the "slapstick" bank holdup scene. He added that John Bell "played his role with fine command and energy, but had all too little chance to develop his subject or do it justice" and felt the play had "little to say either about Kelly or his story" and "often moved sluggishly and unconvincingly."

    References

    Ballad for One Gun Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA

    Ballad for One Gun IMDb