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

By Jane Freebury
Updated April 24 2018 - 10:22pm, first published November 29 2016 - 5:38pm

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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