Tom E. Lewis
Jimmie Blacksmith
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- 1978 · Drama · 1h 48m
The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith is a 1978 Australian drama film directed, written and produced by Fred Schepisi, and starring Tom E. Lewis (billed at the time as Tommy Lewis), Freddy Reynolds and Ray Barrett. The film also featured early appearances by Bryan Brown, Arthur Dignam, and John Jarratt.
- A$1.2 million
- 21 June 1978
- Fred Schepisi
- Bruce Smeaton
Jun 22, 1978 · The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith: Directed by Fred Schepisi. With Tommy Lewis, Freddy Reynolds, Ray Barrett, Jack Thompson. After suffering racist abuse throughout his life - which intensifies following his marriage to a white woman - a half-Aboriginal farmhand finds himself driven to murder.
- (2.4K)
- Biography, Crime, Drama
- Fred Schepisi
- 1978-06-22
The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith is a 1972 Booker Prize-nominated Australian novel by Thomas Keneally, and a 1978 Australian film of the same name directed by Fred Schepisi. The novel is based on the life of bushranger Jimmy Governor, the subject of an earlier book by Frank Clune.
- Thomas Keneally
- 178 pp
- 1972
- 1972
Jimmie Blacksmith (Tommy Lewis), a man of half-Aboriginal ancestry, is pushed to the breaking point by the racist oppression perpetrated by the British in their rule of Australia in 1900, and...
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- Tommy Lewis
- Fred Schepisi
- Drama
Fred Schepisi's “The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith,” an Australian film about a half-aborigine who goes on a savage murder spree against whites, is a movie like that. Its story is told entirely in the moral terms of the raw Australian outback of about 1900, and the racial attitudes in the movie are firmly drawn from that period.
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Sep 11, 2014 · D irector Fred Schepisi’s The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith was one of the first Australian feature films with a budget over $1m. More than three and a half decades since its theatrical...
- 2 min
- Luke Buckmaster
Mar 8, 2014 · Film Details. Articles & Reviews. Notes. Brief Synopsis. An epic about the oppression, explosion, and subsequent flight of a half-caste aborigine in the year 1900. Cast & Crew. Read More. Fred Schepisi. Director. Tommy Lewis. Jimmie Blacksmith. Freddy Reynolds. Mort. Ray Barrett. Farrell. Jack Thompson. Reverend Neville. Angela Punch-mcgregor.
