Last night, finished Robbery Under Arms and got back into Vanishing Point.
Robbery Under Arms was such a fascinating book, made more so by the fact that the character of Captain Starlight is based on a real bush-ranger and his two cattle-duffing offsiders. The book is a wonderful picture of rough-and-ready, late nineteenth century Australia and something of a morality tale, to boot. And yes, it seems it's been made into a movie of sorts; I was thinking this morning that the story has all the elements for a pretty good movie - beautiful landscape, plenty of love stories, stick-ups and pursuits, the dramas of mateship and betrayal, etc. So, Sam Neill was Captain Starlight in the movie? Very dashing, I'm sure!
Robbery Under Arms was such a fascinating book, made more so by the fact that the character of Captain Starlight is based on a real bush-ranger and his two cattle-duffing offsiders. The book is a wonderful picture of rough-and-ready, late nineteenth century Australia and something of a morality tale, to boot. And yes, it seems it's been made into a movie of sorts; I was thinking this morning that the story has all the elements for a pretty good movie - beautiful landscape, plenty of love stories, stick-ups and pursuits, the dramas of mateship and betrayal, etc. So, Sam Neill was Captain Starlight in the movie? Very dashing, I'm sure!
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