Two brothers, Dick and Jim Marsden, become involved with the bushranger, Captain Starlight. They romance two girls, work on the goldfields, and are captured by the police after Starlight is shot dead.
There is a moment, roughly midway through Robbery Under Arms, when the camera simply lingers on a kerosene lamp guttering inside a bark-roofed hut. The flame trembles, the shadows swell, and for a heartbeat you forget you are watching a silent film minted in 1920; you feel the scorch of the Outback night, taste the d...
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Kenneth Brampton
Robert N. Bradbury
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" There is a moment, roughly midway through Robbery Under Arms, when the camera simply lingers on a kerosene lamp guttering inside a bark-roofed hut. The flame trembles, the shadows swell, and for a heartbeat you forget you are watching a silent film minted in 1920; you feel the scorch of the Outback night, taste the dust on the wind, sense the outlaw’s pulse drumming beneath your own ribs. That unassuming shot—no intertitle, no melodramatic iris—encapsulates why Kenneth Brampton’s adaptation of..."
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1920 · IMDb —
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