Ned Kelly is a 1970 British-Australian biographical bushranger film. It was the seventh Australian feature film version of the story of 19th-century Australian bushranger Ned Kelly, and is notable for being the first Kelly film to be shot in colour. The film was directed by Tony Richardson, and starred Mick Jagger in the title role. Scottish-born actor Mark McManus played the part of Kelly's friend Joe Byrne. It was a British production, but was filmed entirely in Australia, shot mostly around Braidwood in southern New South Wales, with a largely Australian supporting cast. Plot Ned Kelly is forced by police persecution to become a bushranger. He robs several banks and is eventually captured after the Siege of Glenrowan. He is hanged in Melbourne. Cast Mick Jagger as Ned Kelly Geoff Gilmour as Steve Hart Mark McManus as Joe Byrne McManus had previously played Dan Kelly in Ballad for One Gun (1963). Serge Lazareff as Wild Wright Peter Sumner as Tom Lloyd Ken Shorter as Aaron Sherritt James Elliott as Pat O'Donnell Clarissa Kaye as Mrs. Kelly Diane Craig as Maggie Kelly Sue Lloyd as Kate Kelly Alexi Long as Grace Kelly Ken Goodlet as Supt. Nicholson Goodlet had previously played Kelly in a 1960 telemovie. Frank Thring as Judge Sir Redmond Barry Bruce Barry as George King Tony Bazell as Mr. Scott Allen Bickford as Dan Kelly Robert Bruning as Sgt. Steele Alexander Cann as McInnes Janne Wesley as Caitlyn Martyn Sanderson as Fitzpatrick John Laws as Kennedy Liam Reynolds as Lonigan Lindsay Smith as McIntyre John Gray as Stratton Gerry Duggan as Father O'Hea Development Karel Reisz and Albert Finney In the early 1960s, Karel Reisz and Albert Finney announced plans to make a film about Ned Kelly from a screenplay by David Storey. Finney and Reisz flew to Australia in October 1962 and spent ten weeks picking locations and doing research. In January 1963, it was reported the film would star Finney and Angela Lansbury. The movie was meant to be Finney's next project after Tom Jones (1963) and filming was to start in March 1963. The British arm of Columbia Pictures agreed to put up the entire budget. However, British labour union regulations required a mostly British crew, and the cost of putting them up in Australia put the budget beyond what Columbia were willing to pay. (Tom Jones had yet to be released.) Finney and Reisz