New film about outlaw Ben Hall shows Australia's taste for bushranger films has never diminished

By Jane Freebury
Updated December 8 2016 - 8:13pm, first published December 2 2016 - 11:45pm
Jack Martin as Ben Hall in <i>The Legend of Ben Hall</i>. Photo: Two Tone Pictures
Jack Martin as Ben Hall in <i>The Legend of Ben Hall</i>. Photo: Two Tone Pictures
Mick Jagger as Ned Kelly. Ned Kelly is an Australian Outlaw who roamed the outback a century ago
Mick Jagger as Ned Kelly. Ned Kelly is an Australian Outlaw who roamed the outback a century ago

 Such is life, or is it? Bushranger films, one of the most popular films ever made in Australia, were banned in three states by the police in 1912, for fear of their impact on law and order. And yet the figure of the strapping, bearded outlaw who emerged from the bush and melted back into it just as quickly, may have been erased from the cinema screen but he was never killed off.

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