Ballad for One Gun

Ballad for One Gun
Directed by Raymond Menmuir
Written by Philip Grenville Mann
Starring John Bell
Production
company
Distributed by Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Release date
 17 July 1963 (Sydney)
Running time
 60 mins
Country Australia
Language English

Ballad for One Gun is a 1963 Australian television film about Ned Kelly broadcast on ABC. It was originally aired 17 July 1963 in Sydney and shown at later dates in other parts of Australia. It was written by Phillip Grenville Mann.[1]

Plot

The story of Ned Kelly which made him out to be "a dangerous embryo dictator, murderously vindictive and_swaggeringly brutal in his hour of power."[2]

Cast

Production

The play was acquired by the ABC and BBC in 1961.[3]

Raymond Menmuir made it after having been in Britain for two years.[4]

Reception

The TV critic for Sydney Morning Herald thought there was an uneasy co-existence between the depiction of the Ned Kelly gang "as young hoodlums of today in a dream-setting" and "conventional and "Patriot" type inserts of the haughty, high-cravatted police official Captain Standish" and the "slapstick" bank holdup scene. He added that John Bell "played his role with fine command and energy, but had all too little chance to develop his subject or do it justice" and felt the play had "little to say either about Kelly or his story" and "often moved sluggishly and unconvincingly."[2]

References

  1. ↑ "TELEVISION AND RADIO". The Canberra Times. 17 July 1963. p. 35. Retrieved 15 March 2015 – via National Library of Australia.
  2. 1 2 "Ballad of One Gun". Sydney Morning Herald. 18 July 1963. p. 7.
  3. ↑ Marshall, Valda (3 September 1961). "TV Merry Go Round". Sydney Morning Herald. p. 92.
  4. ↑ "THIS WEEK ON ABC3". The Canberra Times. 37 (10, 588). 15 July 1963. p. 16. Retrieved 16 February 2017 – via National Library of Australia.


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