''The Outlaw Michael Howe'' is a 2013 Australian historical drama film written and directed by
Brendan Cowell
Brendan Cowell is an Australian actor, playwright, and director.
Early life and education
Cowell was born in Sydney and grew up in the beachside suburb of Cronulla. He credits his mother and high school drama teacher with encouraging him to e ...
. Set in the early 19th century, the film is based on the exploits of
Michael Howe, an Englishman who was transported as a
convict
A convict is "a person found guilty of a crime and sentenced by a court" or "a person serving a sentence in prison". Convicts are often also known as "prisoners" or "inmates" or by the slang term "con", while a common label for former convict ...
to the Australian
penal colony
A penal colony or exile colony is a settlement used to exile prisoners and separate them from the general population by placing them in a remote location, often an island or distant colonial territory. Although the term can be used to refer to ...
of
Van Diemen's Land
Van Diemen's Land was the colonial name of the island of Tasmania used by the British during the European exploration of Australia in the 19th century. A British settlement was established in Van Diemen's Land in 1803 before it became a sepa ...
(now
Tasmania
)
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), where he achieved infamy as a
bushranger
Bushrangers were originally escaped convicts in the early years of the British settlement of Australia who used the bush as a refuge to hide from the authorities. By the 1820s, the term had evolved to refer to those who took up "robbery under ...
and outlaw.
Cast
*
Damon Herriman
Damon Herriman is an Australian actor. He is known for his film and television work in Australia and the United States. He is perhaps best known for his portrayal of Dewey Crowe in ''Justified (TV series), Justified''. In 2019, he portrayed the c ...
-
Michael Howe
*
Mirrah Foulkes
Mirrah Foulkes is an Australian director, screenwriter, and film and television actress. She was raised on the Sunshine Coast, in South East Queensland, Australia. She has appeared in films such as '' Animal Kingdom'' (2010), ''Sleeping Beauty' ...
- Maria Lord
*
Rarriwuy Hick
Rarriwuy Hick (born ) is an Aboriginal Australian award winning actress, known for her roles in the television series ''Redfern Now'', ''Cleverman'', ''Wentworth'' and '' True Colours''.
Early life and education
Hick was born around 1991 in S ...
- Mary
*
Matt Day
Matthew Day (born 28 September 1971) is an Australian actor and filmmaker.
Early life
Day was born in Melbourne, Victoria. When he was 11 years old, he went to live in the United States with his father, a newspaper correspondent, where he be ...
-
Robert Knopwood
Robert Knopwood (2 June 1763 – 18 September 1838)
was an early clergyman and diarist in Australia.
Knopwood was the third child and only surviving son of Robert Knopwood (from a wealthy Norfolk family) and his wife Elizabeth, ''née'' Bart ...
*
Darren Gilshenan
Darren Gilshenan is an Australian actor and writer. He is best known for his in television series ''The Moodys'', ''Maximum Choppage'', ''Chandon Pictures'' and '' Full Frontal''.
Early life
Darren was first introduced to acting while he was a ...
-
Lieutenant Governor Thomas Davey
* Benedict Hardie - Peter Septon
* Pip Miller - Magistrate Humphrey
*
Amanda Bishop
Amanda Diana Bishop (born 10 December 1979) is an Australian actress and comedian, known for her comedy portrayals of Julia Gillard, the former Prime Minister of Australia, in the television comedy '' At Home with Julia''. Bishop had previous ...
- Susan
* Nicholas Cassim -
Lieutenant Governor William Sorell
* Patrick Connolly - Carlisle
*
Brendan Cowell
Brendan Cowell is an Australian actor, playwright, and director.
Early life and education
Cowell was born in Sydney and grew up in the beachside suburb of Cronulla. He credits his mother and high school drama teacher with encouraging him to e ...
- British soldier
* Steve Morris - Convict
* Blake Lindsell - British soldier
* Dean Gould - British soldier
Filming
The film was shot on location in
Tasmania
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, including
Mount Field National Park
Mount Field National Park is a national park in Tasmania, Australia, 64 km northwest of Hobart. The landscape ranges from eucalyptus temperate rainforest to alpine moorland, rising to 1,434 metres (4,705 ft) at the summit of Mount Fi ...
.
A large reconstruction of colonial
Hobart
Hobart ( ; Nuennonne/Palawa kani: ''nipaluna'') is the capital and most populous city of the Australian island state of Tasmania. Home to almost half of all Tasmanians, it is the least-populated Australian state capital city, and second-small ...
was also built at
Old Sydney Town
Old Sydney Town was an Australian open-air museum and theme park which operated from 1975 until 2003 in Somersby on the New South Wales Central Coast. Once a living tribute to the early years of Sydney's colonial settlement in the late 18th a ...
in New South Wales.
Music
Roger Mason composed the original score for ''The Outlaw Michael Howe''. The soundtrack includes
Sarah Blasko
Sarah Elizabeth Blaskow (born 23 September 1976), known professionally as Sarah Blasko, is an Australian singer, songwriter, musician and record producer. From April 2002, Blasko developed her solo career after fronting Sydney-based band, Acqui ...
's song "A Truth", written and recorded exclusively for the film and featuring
Warren Ellis
Warren Girard Ellis (born 16 February 1968) is a British comic book writer, novelist, and screenwriter. He is best known as the co-creator of several original comics series, including ''Transmetropolitan'' (1997–2002), ''Global Frequency'' ( ...
.
The Drones' song "How to See Through Fog" is also used in the film.
Release
The film premiered on the
ABC
ABC are the first three letters of the Latin script known as the alphabet.
ABC or abc may also refer to:
Arts, entertainment, and media Broadcasting
* American Broadcasting Company, a commercial U.S. TV broadcaster
** Disney–ABC Television ...
on 1 December 2013, and was released on DVD by
Madman Entertainment
Madman Entertainment Pty. Ltd., also known as Madman Films, is an Australian distribution and rights management company headquartered in East Melbourne, Victoria, specialising in feature films, documentaries and television series across theatri ...
.
Awards
References
External links
*
Howe leaves Ned Kelly for dead
2013 television films
2013 films
2013 biographical drama films
2013 Western (genre) films
2010s English-language films
2010s vigilante films
Australian biographical drama films
Australian Broadcasting Corporation original programming
Australian films about revenge
Australian drama television films
Australian vigilante films
Biographical films about bandits
Biographical television films
Bushranger films
Films set in 1815
Films set in Tasmania
Western (genre) television films
2010s Australian films
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