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* FolkHero: Ned is viewed as Australia's RobinHood because he targets wealthy {{asshole victims}} who cause suffering among the poor.

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* FolkHero: Ned is viewed as Australia's RobinHood Myth/RobinHood because he targets wealthy {{asshole victims}} who cause suffering among the poor.
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* DeterminedWidow: Ma Kelly.
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* BadassBeard: Ned grows one during his time in the bush.
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* NotableOriginalMusic: Mick Jagger had minimal musical involvement with the 1970 version. Instead, it featured several narrative ballads composed by Creator/ShelSilverstein and sung by Music/WaylonJennings and Creator/KrisKristofferson.
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* NotableOriginalMusic: Mick Jagger had minimal musical involvement with the 1970 version. Instead, it featured several narrative ballads composed by Creator/ShelSilverstein and sung by Music/WaylonJennings and Kris Kristofferson.

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* NotableOriginalMusic: Mick Jagger had minimal musical involvement with the 1970 version. Instead, it featured several narrative ballads composed by Creator/ShelSilverstein and sung by Music/WaylonJennings and Kris Kristofferson.Creator/KrisKristofferson.
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* DownerEnding: [[spoiler:Ned is captured and hanged after his backup guys kill each other due to thinking they're gonna get captured.]]


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* TheHeroDies: The film [[HowWeGotHere opens with Ned's hanging]].
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[[caption-width-right:250:The poster for the original film.]]

''Ned Kelly'' is a 1970 {{Biopic}}, directed by Tony Richardson and starring Music/MickJagger as Ned.

It is based on the story of 19th-century Australian outlaw UsefulNotes/NedKelly. Not to be confused with [[Film/NedKelly2003 another film of the same title]], released in 2003.

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!!''Ned Kelly'' provides examples of:
* ArmorIsUseless: Subverted. Ned's improvised helmet and breastplate protect him from the coppers' bullets.
* BadassBeard: Ned grows one during his time in the bush.
* TheBlacksmith: Ned turns some rusty old plows into a suit of armor.
* BulletproofVest: A full suit of armour, in this case.
* BountyHunter: The gang gets into a shootout with a German immigrant wearing a pickelhaube.
* TheDandy: Ned steals a velvet tailcoat and frilly shirt from a wealthy landowner.
* DirtyCop: Some of the coppers take bribes not to arrest criminals, and run protection rackets to extort money from poor homesteaders.
* DeterminedWidow: Ma Kelly.
* FakeIrish: Mick Jagger's attempt to imitate the real life Kelly's accent.
* FolkHero: Ned is viewed as Australia's RobinHood because he targets wealthy {{asshole victims}} who cause suffering among the poor.
* GunsAkimbo: Ned wields a pair of Colt revolvers in the final shootout.
* TheGunslinger: Ned idolizes the dime novel outlaws of the Old West.
* HistoricalBeautyUpdate: ScooterRidingMod Mick Jagger portrays Ned.
* MorallyBankruptBanker: The banks threaten to repossess the Irish settlers' land, and throw them out of their homes.
* NotableOriginalMusic: Mick Jagger had minimal musical involvement with the 1970 version. Instead, it featured several narrative ballads composed by Creator/ShelSilverstein and sung by Music/WaylonJennings and Kris Kristofferson.
* PetTheDog: The gang is popular with their fellow Irish settlers because during a {{bank robbery}} Ned burned all the paperwork listing the bank's debtors.
* PreacherMan: Father O'Hea.
* {{Prospector}}: Being set during Australia's Gold Rush, Ned encounters and robs a mule train carrying nuggets.
* {{Rancher}}: The antagonistic wealthy landowners whom Kelly robs.
* TheRustler: The Kelly brothers resort to stealing horses to feed their starving family.
* TheSheriff: Superintendent Nicholson.
* TheWestern: The Bushrangers are the Aussie equivalent of desperados, and the Victoria police fill the role of the {{Posse}}.
* YoungGun: Ned and the gang.
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