Thunderbolt (1910 film)

Thunderbolt is a 1910 film in the genre of outlaw films at the time that tended to glorify the life of the outlaw Bushrangers that roamed the Australian outback in precommonwealth days. Shortly after this movie was made, the government of New South Wales banned the manufacture of this type of film on the basis that they were promoting crime.

Frederick Ward is a cattle drover earning money for his wedding when he is accused of cattle theft and sentenced to seven years at Cockatoo Island. He escapes three years later by swimming across the water only to learn that his fiance, Jess Anson, has died of grief. He seeks his revenge by taking on a life of crime, becoming the bushranger Captain Thunderbolt.He befriends some aboriginal people, steals a racehorse, Combo, and robs the Moonbi Mail Coach. He then enters Combo in a horse race and wins. He is rescued from a police trap involving Chinese by a halfcaste girl, Sunday. He is grateful to her and they get married. He then holds up the Carlisle Hotel, and narrowly escapes. He takes on a boy apprentice and Sunday dies. Thunderbolt then dies in a shoot out with police on the riverbank at Uralla. ........

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