Ned Kelly had previously been portrayed onscreen by Mick Jagger (“Ned Kelly,” 1970) and by Heath Ledger (“Ned Kelly,” 2003). Neither of those films was particularly memorable. Now ...

“Ned Kelly” (1970), which toplined a miscast Mick Jagger. Somewhat surprisingly, this new telling of the legend is not based on Peter Carey’s well-regarded 2001 Booker prize-winning “The ...

Mick Jagger took a break from the Rolling Stones to play “Ned Kelly” in 1970. Heath Ledger led an all-star cast — Orlando Bloom, Naomi Watts, Geoffrey Rush — in the 2003 “Ned Kelly.” ...

who flounced across the outback in Tony Richardson’s Ned Kelly (1970) whining of his exploits in an unaccountable Truman Capote drawl. Steely-eyed, rumble-voiced Heath Ledger, title character of ...

among them a 1970 production starring Mick Jagger, while the inspired work of the Melbourne painter Sidney Nolan presents an eye-catching portrayal of the Ned Kelly story. He symbolises a notion ...

The True History of the Kelly Gang - and several films, including a 2003 offering starring Heath Ledger and a 1970 effort with Mick Jagger as Ned.

Kelly was played by Mick Jagger in 1970 and Heath Ledger in 2003 ... a civilization that’s in many ways more brutal. The young Ned (played with stalwart presence by Orlando Schwerdt) grows ...

Mick Jagger as Ned Kelly in the 1970 film, reading a bad review in The Ovens and Murray Advertiser.Credit: Alamy “When the other two members of the group returned, McIntyre was supposed to tell ...

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Ned Kelly is basically an outback western in which director and coscripter Tony Richardson’s simplicity becomes a pretension of its own. It is a film to which one applies the damning word ...

He gets more deeply drawn into the outlaw life, and eventually becomes involved in murders. Based on the life of famed 19th-century Australian outlaw Ned Kelly.