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Dick Marston narrates the events of his and his brother Jim's association with notorious bushranger Captain Starlight.
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Screen cap from opening creditsSee full AustLit entryIn adapting Robbery Under Arms into a feature film, Kenneth Brampton incorporates the major threads of the original story into approximately 60 minutes of storytelling time. The narrative follows the two Marsden brothers through their adventures with the gentlemanly bushranger Captain Starlight, their romance with local girls, their life on the goldfields, and their eventual capture by the police after Starlight is shot. The story differs in the end, however, by having both brothers emerge from years in prison to start new lives with their patiently waiting sweethearts, whereas Boldrewood's novel sees Jim killed by the police.
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Kenneth Brampton's short film is available to view in its entirety.
Watch Robbery Under Arms courtesy of the Internet Archive below.
To see the Internet Archive's own page for Robbery Under Arms, complete with thumbnail images of stills from the film, click here.
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Among the many adaptations of Boldrewood's novel was an Alfred Dampier and Garnet Walch stage production.
Among the treasures in the State Library of NSW (accessible via Trove) are photographs of a staging of this play c. 1890s, including this magnificent stand-off between bushrangers and police.
Or, if you prefer, they hold photographs of other scenes from the play, including camp life and a worryingly bucolic cabin scene.
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...'with a good slice of comedy interlarded.'
(From the Northern Miner, 11 March 1921, p.3/)
To see the rest of this 1921 review, click here (via Trove).
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