Ned Kelly (1970 film)

Ned Kelly is a 1970 BritishAustralian biographical and part musical film. It was the seventh Australian feature film version of the story of 19th century Australian bushranger Ned Kelly. It is notable for being the first Kelly film to be shot in colour.

Ned Kelly is forced by police persecution to become a bushranger. He robs several banks and is eventually captured after the Siege of Glenrowan. He is hanged in Melbourne.In the early 1960s, Karel Reisz and Albert Finney announced plans to make a film about Ned Kelly from a screenplay by David Storey. Finney and Reisz flew to Australia in October 1962 and spent ten weeks picking locations and doing research. The movie was meant to be Finneys next project after Tom Jones 1963 with filming to start in March 1963. The British arm of Columbia Pictures agreed to put up the entire budget. However, British labour union regulations required a mostly British crew, and the cost of putting them up in Australia put the budget beyond what Columbia were willing to pay. Tom Jones had yet to be released. Italy and Spain were looked at as alternatives but the project was eventually abandoned. Finney and Reisz went on to make Night Must Fall 1964 instead. ........

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