The legend of Ben Hall is a great example of how to make a good Western about a famous outlaw. The only problem is it's not a Western, it’s an Aussie flic. Ben Hall was a bushranger, Australia’s equivalent of a desperado or bandit, but there are some key differences. ------------------------------------------------------------ references: Belich, James. “Exploding Wests: Boom and Bust in Nineteenth-Century Settler Societies.” In _Natural Experiments of History,_ ed. Jared Diamond and James A. Robinson, 53-87. Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2010. https://amzn.to/2m6PicB Shiel, D.J. Ben Hall: Bushranger. St. Lucia, Australia: University of Queensland Press, 1983. https://amzn.to/2KZFxLa McFarlane, Brian. “Down Under Desperado: ‘The Legend of Ben Hall’ and the Bushranger Film.” Metro Magazine, no. 193 (January 2017), 28-31. https://truewestmagazine.com/the-legend-of-ben-hall/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Hall_(bushranger) ------------------------------------------------------------ SUBSCRIBE FOR MORE VIDEOS: http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=CynicalCypher88 Support the channel through Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/CynicalHistorian or pick up some merchandise at SpreadShirt: https://shop.spreadshirt.com/cynicalhistorian LET'S CONNECT: https://www.facebook.com/cynicalcypher88 https://twitter.com/Cynical_History ------------------------------------------------------------ Wiki: The Legend of Ben Hall is a 2016 Australian Revisionist Western film. Written and directed by Matthew Holmes, it is based on the exploits of bushranger Ben Hall and his gang. The film stars Jack Martin in the title role, Jamie Coffa as John Gilbert, and William Lee as John Dunn. Holmes' goal with The Legend of Ben Hall was the produce an historically accurate film that focuses on the last nine months of Hall's life, when he was a well-established bushranger along with his accomplices Gilbe