Ben Hall (1975)

Directed by

Don Chaffey

Country

Australia, United Kingdom

Rating

7.0 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

The series follows the life of Ben Hall, a notorious Australian bushranger in the 1860s. He interacts with fellow outlaws and lawmen while trying to survive in the colonial landscape.

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What happens

Ben Hall is a 1975 Australian TV series based on the bush ranger Ben Hall. The TV series stars Jon Finch as Ben Hall, Evin Crowley as Biddy Hall, John Castle as bushranger Frank Gardiner, Brian Blain as Sir Frederick Pottinger, Jack Charles as Billy Dargin and John Orcsik as John Gilbert. Neil McCallum was the creator-producer and the series editor was Colin Free. It was a co-production between the ABC, BBC-TV, and 20th Century Fox. It was called the most ambitious drama production of the ABC with a budget of $1 million. The series was filmed in the Megalong Valley, New South Wales and in the suburb of Belrose. McCallum said "The series is not an accurate story of the life of Ben Hall. It is impossible in 13 one-hour programs to reconstruct a man's life over a period of ten years. What we have done is to be meticulous in reconstructing the period in which he lived so that the series represents, I think, a very real picture of Australia in the 1860s." (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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