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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.
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.
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- 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
- 1972
Rated: 3.5/5 Aug 11, 2020 Full Review Michael Lasky Bay Area Reporter A richly rewarding film, The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith is a not-to-be-missed treasure. May 4, 2020 Full Review Read all reviews
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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.
Thomas Keneally wrote the novel, The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith, in 1972, based on the exploits and exploitation of Jimmy Governor, an Indigenous Australian man who, at the turn of the century, committed a series of murders that sprung from a long simmering rage heating up for years. In 1978, Fred Schepisi directed a movie version of the book ...
Fred Schepisi's internationally acclaimed masterpiece, based on the novel by Thomas Keneally, is the shocking tale of an indigenous man driven to madness and...
- 2 min
- 8.8K
- Umbrella Entertainment
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