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Films from the country "australie", sorted by revenue

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Jedda
Jedda (1955)
, 1h41
Directed by Charles Chauvel
Origin Australie
Genres Drama, Action, Adventure
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors Robert Tudawali

Jedda is an Aboriginal girl born on a cattle station in the Northern Territory of Australia. After her mother dies giving birth to her, the child is brought to Sarah McMann, the wife of the station boss. Sarah has recently lost her own newborn to illness. She at first intends to give the baby to one of the Aboriginal women who work on the station, but then raises Jedda as her own, teaching her European ways and separating her from other Aborigines.
The Story of the Kelly Gang, 1h10
Directed by Charles Tait
Origin Australie
Genres Drama, Biography, Action, Historical, Crime, Western
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films

Film historian Ina Bertrand suggests that the tone of The Story of the Kelly Gang is "one of sorrow, depicting Ned Kelly and his gang as the last of the bushrangers." Bertrand identifies several scenes that suggest considerable film making sophistication on the part of the Taits. One is the composition of a scene of police shooting parrots in the bush. The second is the capture of Ned, shot from the viewpoint of the police, as he advances. A copy of the programme booklet has survived, containing a synopsis of the film, in six 'scenes'. The latter provided audiences with the sort of information later provided by intertitles, and can help historians imagine what the entire film may have been like.