The Story of the Kelly Gang

The Story of the Kelly Gang

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Directed by Charles Tait

Produced by Johnson and Gibson, J. & N. Tait

190670 min5.2 / 10

A landmark early feature film about the notorious Kelly Gang, combining action and crime narrative with the formal experimentation of silent cinema.

Just as Galeen and Wegener's Der Golem (1915) can be seen as a testament to early German film artistry, The Story of the Kelly Gang (1906) symbolizes both the birth of the Australian film industry and the emergence of an Australian cinema identity. Even more significantly, it heralds the emergence of the feature film format. However, only fragments of the original production of more than one hour are known to exist, preserved at the National Film and Sound Archive, Canberra; Efforts at reconstruction have made the film available to modern audiences.

Questions people ask

  • Does The Story of the Kelly Gang end with hope? Barely. Less hopeful than 83% of films.

  • Is The Story of the Kelly Gang easy watching? Not especially. Less comforting than 74% of films.

  • Is The Story of the Kelly Gang sad? Not especially. Less sad than 73% of films.

  • Is The Story of the Kelly Gang violent? Somewhat. More violent than 68% of films.

  • Is The Story of the Kelly Gang scary? Somewhat. More frightening than 61% of films.

These describe how the film comes across, measured across the whole film and compared with other well-known films. They are not a content list — nothing here was counted or checked scene by scene, so for age-suitability or specific content use a classification board or a dedicated content-warning service.

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