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The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith is a 1972 Booker Prize-nominated Australian novel by Thomas Keneally, and a 1978 Australian film of the same name directed by Fred Schepisi. The novel is based on the life of bushranger Jimmy Governor, the subject of an earlier book by Frank Clune.
- Thomas Keneally
- 1972
The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith is a 1978 Australian drama film directed, written and produced by Fred Schepisi, and starring Tom E. Lewis (billed at the time as Tommy Lewis), Freddy Reynolds and Ray Barrett. The film also featured early appearances by Bryan Brown, Arthur Dignam, and John Jarratt.
Jun 22, 1978 · The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith: Directed by Fred Schepisi. With Tommy Lewis, Freddy Reynolds, Ray Barrett, Jack Thompson. After suffering racist abuse throughout his life - which intensifies following his marriage to a white woman - a half-Aboriginal farmhand finds himself driven to murder.
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- Biography, Crime, Drama
- Fred Schepisi
- 1978-06-22
Jan 1, 2001 · The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith is the 7th novel by Thomas Keneally. Set around the time of Federation, it tells the story of half-caste Jimmie Blacksmith, initiated into tribal manhood by his aboriginal elders, he was, at the same time, taught by a Methodist minister.
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- Paperback
Jimmie Blacksmith (Tommy Lewis), a man of half-Aboriginal ancestry, is pushed to the breaking point by the racist oppression perpetrated by the British in their rule of Australia...
- (13)
- Tommy Lewis
- Fred Schepisi
- Drama
Fred Schepisi's internationally acclaimed masterpiece, based on the novel by Thomas Keneally, is the shocking tale of an indigenous man driven to madness and...
- 2 min
- 8.8K
- Umbrella Entertainment
The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith, adapted from a 1972 novel by Thomas Keneally, was one of the first Australian features in which the whole story is told from an Aboriginal viewpoint. This is in itself controversial, as neither the writer nor the director is Aboriginal.
