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Mad Dog Morgan
Mad Dog Morgan is a 1976 Australian bushranger film directed by Philippe Mora and starring Dennis Hopper, Jack Thompson and David Gulpilil. It is based upon the life of Dan Morgan.
Dan Morgan witnesses a bloody massacre of Chinese immigrants on the goldfields and turns into a robber. He is arrested and sent to prison for six years where he is tormented and raped. He is let out on parole and becomes a bushranger, befriending an Aboriginal man, Billy. Morgan fights against the vicious Superintendent Francis Cobham and is eventually killed.
Mad Dog Morgan is based on the book Morgan: The Bold Bushranger by Margaret Frances Carnegie, which she researched over 12 years. (Carnegie would be involved in helping find locations for the movie.)
Philippe Mora wrote the script on a ship voyage from London to Melbourne in 1974. This was submitted to the Australian Film Development Corporation in early 1975 who agreed to support it.
The budget was raised from the Australian Film Commission (what the AFDC turned into), Greater Union and private investment, including Mora's father Georges, Margaret Carnegie, tycoon Victor Smorgon and Lyn Williams, the wife of artist Fred Williams. The AFC invested $175,000.
The movie was originally called just Mad Dog. Mora and producer Jeremy Thomas flew to Los Angeles to cast the lead role. Their first choice, Stacy Keach turned it down; Martin Sheen and Jason Miller expressed interest in playing Daniel Morgan but Mora decided to cast Dennis Hopper instead. The director recalled, "So we took this little plane down to New Mexico, in Taos, and we get out of the plane, and there's Dennis at the end of the runaway, dressed in tattered Levis, holding a rifle, just standing there and I remember thinking 'That's our Mad Dog!' (laughs)", Hopper's fee was $50,000.
David Gulpillil was cast off the back of his appearance in Walkabout.
The film used various locations where Dan Morgan had been active, in the eastern Riverina, including Billabong Creek, Culcairn and Jindera; as well as locations in Beechworth, North East Victoria. Morgan's cave in the film was the actual cave Dan Morgan had used. Shooting started on 27 October 1975 and went for six weeks over 36 shooting days to 6 December. The shoot was challenged by rain during the first week but managed to be completed on schedule.
Mad Dog Morgan
Mad Dog Morgan is a 1976 Australian bushranger film directed by Philippe Mora and starring Dennis Hopper, Jack Thompson and David Gulpilil. It is based upon the life of Dan Morgan.
Dan Morgan witnesses a bloody massacre of Chinese immigrants on the goldfields and turns into a robber. He is arrested and sent to prison for six years where he is tormented and raped. He is let out on parole and becomes a bushranger, befriending an Aboriginal man, Billy. Morgan fights against the vicious Superintendent Francis Cobham and is eventually killed.
Mad Dog Morgan is based on the book Morgan: The Bold Bushranger by Margaret Frances Carnegie, which she researched over 12 years. (Carnegie would be involved in helping find locations for the movie.)
Philippe Mora wrote the script on a ship voyage from London to Melbourne in 1974. This was submitted to the Australian Film Development Corporation in early 1975 who agreed to support it.
The budget was raised from the Australian Film Commission (what the AFDC turned into), Greater Union and private investment, including Mora's father Georges, Margaret Carnegie, tycoon Victor Smorgon and Lyn Williams, the wife of artist Fred Williams. The AFC invested $175,000.
The movie was originally called just Mad Dog. Mora and producer Jeremy Thomas flew to Los Angeles to cast the lead role. Their first choice, Stacy Keach turned it down; Martin Sheen and Jason Miller expressed interest in playing Daniel Morgan but Mora decided to cast Dennis Hopper instead. The director recalled, "So we took this little plane down to New Mexico, in Taos, and we get out of the plane, and there's Dennis at the end of the runaway, dressed in tattered Levis, holding a rifle, just standing there and I remember thinking 'That's our Mad Dog!' (laughs)", Hopper's fee was $50,000.
David Gulpillil was cast off the back of his appearance in Walkabout.
The film used various locations where Dan Morgan had been active, in the eastern Riverina, including Billabong Creek, Culcairn and Jindera; as well as locations in Beechworth, North East Victoria. Morgan's cave in the film was the actual cave Dan Morgan had used. Shooting started on 27 October 1975 and went for six weeks over 36 shooting days to 6 December. The shoot was challenged by rain during the first week but managed to be completed on schedule.