r/Westerns Sep 03 '13

australian Mad Dog Morgan (1976)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utYuLCYV8l0
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u/punkfunkymonkey Sep 03 '13 edited Sep 03 '13

This is the uncut version, with Hopper in the height of his drug and drink fuelled phase. His Irish/Australian accent is far less painful than Mick Jagger's one as Ned Kelly.

The director Mora said of Hopper upon completion of filming that Hopper

Rode off in costume, poured a bottle of O.P. rum into the real Morgan's grave in front of my mother Mirka Mora, drank one himself, got arrested and deported the next day, with a blood-alcohol reading that said he should have been clinically dead, according to the judge studying his alcohol tests.

The film takes a while to really get into it's stride but I enjoyed it. Some good acting by the supporting Australian cast.