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Mad Max 2 – retitled The Road Warrior in the US – is a standard-bearer for successful sequels and one of the greatest action movies of all time.
Released in Australia at Christmas 1981, it was to...
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The third and fourth Mad Max movies – Beyond Thunderdome and Fury Road – were released 30 years apart.
Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985) co-starred Mel Gibson and Tina Turner and was co-directed by...
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On the anniversary of the release of 'Gallipoli' in August 1981, we share this appearance of director Peter Weir and actors Mel Gibson and David Argue on the popular The Mike Walsh Show.
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The Mad Max films include some of the most compelling music on Australian celluloid.
The music not only provides emotional resonances to specific scenes and helps clarify filmic meaning, but it also...
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Max (Mel Gibson) is now a desert wanderer, in a world where petrol is the only currency. He drives ‘the last of the V8 Interceptors’, a remnant of the days when he was a highway patrol officer. As...
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This home movie by Peter Kamen gives us a fascinating glimpse of life on set during the shooting of Mad Max 2 on location in June 1981.
Most of the footage is of cast and crew on the set of the small...
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Celebrated actor Jacki Weaver markets Mad Max 2 to female audiences in this short TV clip from 1981 promoting the film's Australian release.
'I don't like films that terrify me', starts Weaver before...
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An injured Max (Mel Gibson) has returned to the settler’s camp, after his car has been destroyed. He offers to drive the oil tanker for their breakout attempt. Humungus’s men line up to await his...
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This short trailer for Mad Max 2 makes it very clear that the main attraction of the film is the action scenes.
It features only one line of dialogue and little indication of the plot. Instead it...
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A crazed joyrider (Vincent Gil) and his girlfriend (Lulu Pinkus) lead the highway patrol on an extended chase. Their luck runs out when they come up against Max Rockatansky (Mel Gibson), the best cop...