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      Mad Dog Morgan

      R 1976 1 hr. 42 min. Biography List
      Reviews 40% 250+ Ratings Audience Score After a stint in prison for his first robbery attempt, during which he is badly abused, Daniel Morgan (Dennis Hopper) swears revenge on those who ruined his life. Like the outlaws of the American West, Morgan, aided by an aborigine sidekick named Billy (David Gulpilil), becomes a folk hero among the Australian people, while those in power begin to worry about the trouble he is stirring up. Soon Mad Dog Morgan is Public Enemy No. 1, but neither he nor Billy intends to go down easily. Read More Read Less

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      Laurie S It had all the makings of being a 3 star film, but very bad directing spoiled it. Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 03/13/24 Full Review Audience Member It is a fairly typical, chase down the outlaw movie. Except it is so horribly edited that it simply gets annoying after awhile. Dennis Hopper puts in a good performance given the terrible script and directing, but it is still not good enough to make the movie watchable. Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 01/24/23 Full Review delysid d I'll Blow your fucking brains all over this Fucking Barn! Dennis Hopper is out of control in this crazy old australian movie Rated 4 out of 5 stars 04/11/18 Full Review Audience Member Put in context of the time it was filmed it's great. However it is disturbing, confronting and graphic. A little too much to stomach. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/18/23 Full Review Audience Member "43%" !!!??? GO WATCH THE WALTONS !!! Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/04/23 Full Review Audience Member From the Mill Creek 20 Movie Mean Guns Collection. Mad Dog Morgan is a real rarity, which is a great shame, because Philip Mora's film has much to recommend it and deserves much better than a dodgy cropped transfer on the Mill Creek label. More a chronicle of the exploits of 'Mad Dog' Morgan, the bushranger who inspired Ned Kelly, than a conventional narrative, it's a non-judgemental portrait of an inconsistent, unpredictable man - after going to great lengths to deny he'll ever "be made a murderer," he then becomes one almost immediately when he drunkenly sets his gun off, wounding his host, and then hurrying off to kill the man that he himself has just sent after a doctor. It's very much a seventies film (in the best sense), with a sense of the violence of both the landscape and the people trying to eke a living from it, and it constantly surprises with neat little details such as the magistrate who doles out long sentences simply because there are still so many roads to build. Despite being made at the height of his drugs-and-booze lost period, Dennis Hopper gives a pretty good performance as the naïve and contradictory folk hero cum psychopath, even managing a fairly convincing Irish accent (I'm sure th Irish could find fault, but it never makes you cringe). There's an impressive supporting cast of familiar Aussie faces, not least Gulpilil as Morgan's beloved partner in crime and Frank Thring at his most superciliously unpleasant as the Superintendent: few actors could seem more natural when he and his social circle start casually divvying up Morgan's body parts in the final scene (the head for an anthropologist, the scrotum for the Superintendent's new tobacco pouch). Although not overly graphic, it's still fairly strong meat. 3 stars 2-3-14 Rated 3 out of 5 stars 01/23/23 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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      Danielle Spencer Los Angeles Free Press Hopper gives a bravura performance which establishes him as one of the most interesting actors of his generation. Oct 28, 2019 Full Review Andrew L. Urban Urban Cinefile Philippe Mora handles the screenplay with energy and pace, his storytelling focused on Morgan and his tragic, self-destructive path Jan 16, 2009 Full Review Bill Gibron DVD Verdict Philippe Mora has purposely made a movie about a criminal that has very little to do with crime. Instead, Mad Dog Morgan is about how an outlaw is crafted. Rated: 3.5/5 Aug 15, 2005 Full Review Read all reviews

      Movie Info

      Synopsis After a stint in prison for his first robbery attempt, during which he is badly abused, Daniel Morgan (Dennis Hopper) swears revenge on those who ruined his life. Like the outlaws of the American West, Morgan, aided by an aborigine sidekick named Billy (David Gulpilil), becomes a folk hero among the Australian people, while those in power begin to worry about the trouble he is stirring up. Soon Mad Dog Morgan is Public Enemy No. 1, but neither he nor Billy intends to go down easily.
      Director
      Philippe Mora
      Rating
      R
      Genre
      Biography
      Original Language
      English
      Release Date (Streaming)
      May 2, 2017
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