Short version of the feature but it holds - decently directed by Cecil Holmes, full of action and pace, well thought out by Creswick Jenkinson.
The main debit is the lack of characterisation - the bushrangers are tough that's about it, and the romances are perfunctory. This no doubt would have been addressed in the longer version. The black face is unfortunate.
Grant Taylor is very good as the tough bushranger - this was just before he switched to character acting. Charles Tingwell is his BFF. The most screentime goes to the cop chasing them, played by Harp McGuire. The satire of the rich is fun and the anti immigrant rhetoric they spout very striking for the time.
It hypes history but tries to incorporate a lot of it - there is an Aboriginal woman (just Tingwell's girl not Thunderbolt's), there were rumours he survived, he did have an accomplice, etc.
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