Line #36 Film/MadDogMorgan


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3	''Mad Dog Morgan'' is a 1976 Australian Western based on the life of historical bushranger Dan Morgan. Creator/DennisHopper plays the title role, and Philip Mora directs.
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5	More info on [[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074836/ IMDb]] and on [[http://www.horrorphile.net/mad-dog-morgan/ Horrorphile.]]
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7	!!Tropes:
8	%%* BaldOfEvil: Superintendent Cobham (Frank Thring).
9	%%* BigBad: Cobham
10	%%* BountyHunter: Baylis (John Hargreaves).
11	* ChineseLaborer: Morgan is framed for the murder of a Chinese work detail.
12	* DepravedHomosexual: On the prison ship, Morgan is raped by a gang of gay convicts.
13	* DirtyCop: Sergeant Smith runs several protection rackets.
14	* DownerEnding: [[spoiler:Morgan is fatally wounded at his last stand, and the BigBad orders his corpse mutilated.]]
15	%%* TheDragon: Smith is Cobham's right hand man.
16	%%* EvilBrit: Cobham has an upper class English accent.
17	%%* FrontierDoctor: HerrDoktor Dobbyn is a German immigrant.
18	* TheGunslinger: Morgan outdraws and kills Smith.
19	* GunsAkimbo: Morgan, with a pair of shotguns.
20	* HateSink: Superintendant Cobham, a CorruptPolitician who is introduced commending a judge for deliberately imposing harsh sentences to exploit their labour, strangles a guy who knew nothing of Morgan's whereabouts, and [[spoiler:orders Morgan's corpse mutilated at the end of the film]].
21	* HellholePrison: The convicts are transported to Australia in a cramped, sweltering prison hulk.
22	* TheHeroDies: [[spoiler:Morgan is killed by gunshot during his last stand.]]
23	* KarmaHoudini: Cobham is never punished for his corruption.
24	* KickTheDog:
25	** Judge Barry flat admitting that he gives out undeservingly harsh sentences to people so the Crown can exploit their labour.
26	** The warden of the ''Success'' letting Morgan be raped, only telling the rapists to not kill him.
27	** Superintendant Cobham strangling an Aboriginal prisoner for not knowing where Morgan was, and later [[spoiler:ordering his corpse mutilated]].
28	* MadScientist: The doctor collects and measures the skulls of executed criminals.
29	%%* NobleSavage: Billy
30	* OffWithHisHead: Cobham orders the doctor to decapitate Morgan's corpse.
31	%%* PinkertonDetective: Mainwaring (Creator/JackThompson)
32	* ProtagonistTitle: ''Mad Dog Morgan'',
33	* PrisonRape: Happens to Morgan while on the prison ship, and is his true StartOfDarkness.
34	%%* TheBadGuyWins: Cobham's henchmen succeed in killing Morgan.
35	* TattooAsCharacterType: Sergeant Smith has a teardrop tattooed below his eye, hinting that he is an ex-convict or army deserter.
36	%%* WardensAreEvil: Sergeant Smith and his boss, Cobham.
37	* TheWestern: TheHighwayman Morgan is a desperado AntiHero in the mould of UsefulNotes/JesseJames, Cobham is a combination of villainous USMarshal and HangingJudge, Mainwaring is an ethical sheriff's deputy, the Aborigines represent the Indians, and the coppers are the US Cavalry.

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