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Dennis Hopper, Jack Thompson, David Gulpilil, Frank Thring, Michael Pate ... see more see more... , Bill Hunter , John Hargreaves , Martin Harris , Robin Ramsay , Harold Baigent , Natalie Bate , Graeme Blundell , David Bracks , Liddy Clark , Peter Collingwood , Peter Cummins , Gerry Duggan , Cliff Ellen , Reg Evans , Max Fairchild , Tom Farley , Jon Finlayson , Judith Fisher , Hugh Keays-Byrne , Gerard Maguire , Christopher Pate , Bruce Spence , Roger Ward , Tom Broadbridge , Norman Kaye , Grant Page , Peter Thompson , David John , John Cousins , John Derum , Kevin Leslie , Ken Grant , Jeremy Kewley , John Smythe , Dennis Miller , Philip G. Ross , Wallace Eaton , Don Kerr , David Mitchell , John Bowman

Dennis Hopper plays the title character in this true story of a 19th-century Australian gold-digger who is pressed into a life of crime. A six-year stint in jail doesn't provide reform, but does intro... read more read more...duce him to an Aboriginal partner-in-crime (David Gulpilil). The duo then proceed to terrorize the province of New South Wales with no lack of violence. The TV version was retitled Mad Dog. ~ John Bush, Rovi

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R, 1 hr. 42 min.

Directed by: Philippe Mora

Release Date: September 22, 1976

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DVD Release Date: March 29, 2005

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  • SirPant
    May 1, 2012
    SirPant
    Mad Dog Morgan is a Troma film? Really? Actually after the scene where a mans head get blown up it was no surprise but don't expect a Lloyd Kaufman film, this is a very different kettle of fish. Not that it isn't a little mad though, Hopper makes sure of that with an intense and ... read morecompulsive performance. He was battling a few demons in real life though at the time and you can clearly see it on screen. I've never enjoyed a film so much with such bad acting in - although none of it is from Hopper. It's a see it to believe it film, a one off and brilliant at that. Philippe Mora is cool.
  • matertenebraum
    August 28, 2009
    matertenebraum
    Mad Dog Morgan is a real rarity, which is a great shame, because Philip Mora's film has much to recommend it and deserves much better than a dodgy cropped transfer on the Troma label. More a chronicle of the exploits of 'Mad Dog' Morgan, the bushranger who inspired Ned Kelly, tha... read moren a conventional narrative, it's a non-judgemental portrait of an inconsistent, unpredictable man ? after going to great lengths to deny he'll ever "be made a murderer," he then becomes one almost immediately when he drunkenly sets his gun off, wounding his host, and then hurrying off to kill the man that he himself has just sent after a doctor. It's very much a seventies film (in the best sense), with a sense of the violence of both the landscape and the people trying to eke a living from it, and it constantly surprises with neat little details such as the magistrate who doles out long sentences simply because there are still so many roads to build.

    Despite being made at the height of his drugs-and-booze lost period, Dennis Hopper gives a pretty good performance as the naïve and contradictory folk hero cum psychopath, even managing a fairly convincing Irish accent (I'm sure th Irish could find fault, but it never makes you cringe). There's an impressive supporting cast of familiar Aussie faces, not least Gulpilil as Morgan's beloved partner in crime and Frank Thring at his most superciliously unpleasant as the Superintendent: few actors could seem more natural when he and his social circle start casually divvying up Morgan's body parts in the final scene (the head for an anthropologist, the scrotum for the Superintendent's new tobacco pouch). Although not overly graphic, it's still fairly strong meat.
  • fb25827189
    June 17, 2010
    fb25827189
    Mad Dog Morgan would have been unwatchable had Dennis Hopper not been involved. He makes this movie interesting, scratch that! He makes the movie, period.
    The thing that got me with the film was that it is very uneven, I don't know if it was the copy I have but the editing in th... read moree movie is terrible.
    The film showcases Hopper at a crazy moment in his life, where he was at his artistic peak as an actor, and fueled by alcohol and drugs he had all but become an outcast in Hollywood, and despite all this he gives one of his most memorable performances.
  • patrickdol
    January 27, 2009
    patrickdol
    It's interesting and has merits. But essentially it's just Dennis Hopper fucking about for the duration of the film.
  • kingmob6
    April 4, 2011
    kingmob6
    I really enjoyed this, more often than not for knowing the wild behind the scenes shenanigans that Hopper got up to during the filming.

    Is that legit reason to like a movie? The stuff behind the camera? I suppose if it helps me enjoy the movie it can't be all bad, right?

    Give... read more it a look, it's good stuff.

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Andrew L. Urban
January 16, 2009
Andrew L. Urban, Urban Cinefile

Philippe Mora handles the screenplay with energy and pace, his storytelling focused on Morgan and his tragic, self-destructive path Full Review

Bill Gibron
August 15, 2005
Bill Gibron, DVD Verdict

Philippe Mora has purposely made a movie about a criminal that has very little to do with crime. Instead, Mad Dog Morgan is about how an outlaw is crafted. Full Review

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