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* CoolGuns: Ward and Blake use Colt Peacemakers.

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* HistoricalBeautyUpdate: The real life Frederick Ward had an unkempt BadassBeard, but Holmes portrays him as a sharp dressed, clean shaven Bodgie.[[https://www.flickr.com/photos/nfsa/4626274264/]]

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* HistoricalBeautyUpdate: The real life Frederick Ward had an unkempt BadassBeard, beard, but Holmes portrays him as a sharp dressed, clean shaven Bodgie.[[https://www.flickr.com/photos/nfsa/4626274264/]]



* TheWestern: The film follows a similar plot to NedKelly and MadDogMorgan, where the {{Outlaw}} is pursued by the brutal lackeys of the EvilBrit officials.

IMDB entry: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0045606/?ref_=ttpl_pl_tt

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* TheWestern: The film follows a similar plot to NedKelly and MadDogMorgan, where the {{Outlaw}} is pursued by the brutal lackeys of the EvilBrit officials.

IMDB entry: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0045606/?ref_=ttpl_pl_tt
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* HellHolePrison: Ward, Blake and the other convicts are put to work in a ChainGang breaking rocks.

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* HellHolePrison: Ward, Blake and the other convicts are [[WorkingOnTheChainGang put to work in on a ChainGang chain gang]] breaking rocks.
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* BiggerBad: Queen Victoria and TheEmpire.

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'''Captain Thunderbolt''' is a 1953 Cecil Holmes film starring Grant Taylor as the bushranger Frederick Ward. One black and white copy of this now rare film is stored at the Australian National Sound and Film Archive.

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'''Captain Thunderbolt''' [[quoteright:350:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/captainthunderboltstill4.jpg]]

''Captain Thunderbolt''
is a 1953 Cecil Holmes film starring Grant Taylor as the bushranger Frederick Ward. One black and white copy of this now rare film is stored at the Australian National Sound and Film Archive.
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* DarkIsNotEvil: Captain Thunderbolt favours black suits, but robs the rich to feed the poor JustLikeRobinHood. He even beats the EvilBrit bankers, {{Rancher}}s and officials at {{Poker}} to win back some of the money they extorted from the Irish DeterminedHomesteader families.

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* DarkIsNotEvil: Captain Thunderbolt favours black suits, but robs the rich to feed the poor JustLikeRobinHood. He even beats the EvilBrit bankers, {{Rancher}}s and officials at {{Poker}} TabletopGame/{{Poker}} to win back some of the money they extorted from the Irish DeterminedHomesteader families.
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* BadassLongcoat: Ward's attire is identical to that of TheGambler in Westerns: frock coat, bolo tie and EyeObscuringHat.


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* CoolGuns: Ward and Blake use Colt Peacemakers.
* DarkIsNotEvil: Captain Thunderbolt favours black suits, but robs the rich to feed the poor JustLikeRobinHood. He even beats the EvilBrit bankers, {{Rancher}}s and officials at {{Poker}} to win back some of the money they extorted from the Irish DeterminedHomesteader families.


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* HistoricalBeautyUpdate: The real life Frederick Ward had an unkempt BadassBeard, but Holmes portrays him as a sharp dressed, clean shaven Bodgie.[[https://www.flickr.com/photos/nfsa/4626274264/]]
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'''Captain Thunderbolt''' is a 1953 Cecil Holmes film starring Grant Taylor as the bushranger Frederick Ward. One black and white copy of this now rare film is stored at the Australian National Sound and Film Archive.

* AgentPeacock: Captain Thunderbolt is quite TheDandy, and enjoys dancing with beautiful women.
* BiggerBad: Queen Victoria and TheEmpire.
* TheGunslinger: Ward and his sidekick Alan Blake (Charles Tingwell) are deadly with their six-shooters.
* HeroicSacrifice: Blake dies TakingTheBullet from Mannix so Ward can escape.
* GoodHairEvilHair: Ward is clean shaven and has a Teddy Boy quiff. Mannix has a bushy beard.
* TheHighwayman: Ward behaves like a gentleman when robbing stagecoaches.
* HellHolePrison: Ward, Blake and the other convicts are put to work in a ChainGang breaking rocks.
* IndianMaiden: Aboriginal girl Mary.
* TheRustler: Ward and Blake were imprisoned for stealing horses.
* RabidCop: Sgt Mannix (Harp Mcguire) will do anything to see Ward dead.
* WardensAreEvil: The prison guards force the convicts of the PenalColony to labour in the hot sun until they collapse.
* TheWestern: The film follows a similar plot to NedKelly and MadDogMorgan, where the {{Outlaw}} is pursued by the brutal lackeys of the EvilBrit officials.

IMDB entry: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0045606/?ref_=ttpl_pl_tt

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