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form
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Mad Dog Morgan
( dir. Philippe Mora
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Australia
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Motion Picture Productions
,
1976
Z1692562
1976
single work
film/TV
adventure
historical fiction
crime
(taught in 1 units)
After enduring a prison sentence and attempting to eke out an existence on the Victorian goldfields, Daniel Morgan teams up with an Indigenous Australian outcast called Billy. Together, they terrorise southern NSW, killing policemen and raiding farms. Eventually, the authorities raise the reward for Morgan's capture to £1000, thus making his attempts to avoid capture even more difficult. He eventually crosses back into Victoria, but his behaviour has become increasingly erratic. Meanwhile, the police, led by Detective Mainwaring, close in.
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