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For the Term of His Natural Life

  • Mini serie TV
  • 1983
  • 8h 40min
VALUTAZIONE IMDb
7,5/10
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For the Term of His Natural Life (1983)
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Aggiungi una trama nella tua linguaEngland 1834. The young Rufus is sentenced after an intrigue and banished to Australia for life.England 1834. The young Rufus is sentenced after an intrigue and banished to Australia for life.England 1834. The young Rufus is sentenced after an intrigue and banished to Australia for life.

  • Star
    • Anthony Perkins
    • Patrick Macnee
    • Samantha Eggar
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  • VALUTAZIONE IMDb
    7,5/10
    249
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    • Star
      • Anthony Perkins
      • Patrick Macnee
      • Samantha Eggar
    • 4Recensioni degli utenti
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    1 stagione1983

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    Interpreti principali48

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    Anthony Perkins
    Anthony Perkins
    • Rev James North
    • 1983
    Patrick Macnee
    Patrick Macnee
    • Major Vickers
    • 1983
    Samantha Eggar
    Samantha Eggar
    • Mrs. Vickers
    • 1983
    Diane Cilento
    Diane Cilento
    • Lady Elinor Devine
    • 1983
    Rod Mullinar
    Rod Mullinar
    • Lt. Maurice Frere
    • 1983
    Robert Coleby
    Robert Coleby
    • John Rex
    • 1983
    Susan Lyons
    • Sarah
    • 1983
    Penelope Stewart
    • Sylvia Vickers
    • 1983
    Colin Friels
    Colin Friels
    • Richard Devine…
    • 1983
    Wendy Strehlow
    Wendy Strehlow
    • Jenny
    • 1983
    Barry Lovett
    • Captain Blunt
    • 1983
    Glynn Nicholas
    • Kirkland
    • 1983
    Jeremy Coote
    • Frank Edgely
    • 1983
    Henry Salter
    • Troke, prison warder
    • 1983
    David Jobling
    • Convict
    • 1983
    Stephen Marney
    • Prison Guard
    • 1983
    Anna Maria Monticelli
    Anna Maria Monticelli
    • Alicia
    • 1983
    Selwyn Crockett
    • Willis
    • 1983
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    8theobenton

    Enjoy

    Enjoy this 1980s series based more on the original "Australian Journal" series than the book which vastly differs in finish & in construction of the story & its characters especially as the novel finished with the storm at sea and the magazine serial continues the story. You can buy it in both forms & the serial book covers the detail of the TV series. A fun one to have worked on in the day as a convict. The music track has dated it a bit I feel but story excellent.
    10monkmangraham

    AN INNOCENT MAN FACING A LIFE OF HELL

    If ever you feel unhappy and discontented with the modern world, watching 'For The Term Of His Natural Life' will put an end to your grumbling and make you grateful you are living in the twenty first century and not the nineteenth. This gripping and disturbing movie begins in the year 1834, when England shipped criminals to penal settlements in Australia. Men, women and children were transported to a British colony on the other side of the world - often to serve life sentences of imprisonment imposed as a result of amazingly petty crimes.

    One of these unfortunate wretches is the central character of the film, which was made in Australia in 1983. Rufus Dawes (Colin Friels) is wrongly convicted of stealing a watch and sentenced to transportation to Australia - in the words of the judge 'for the term of your natural life'. Based on the novel by Marcus Clarke, the movie shows not only the severity and inhumanity of the penal code of the day, but also the barbaric nature of the treatment of convicts under the transportation system.

    Bad luck continues to stalk Dawes on his voyage to Australia. He is once more wrongly accused - this time of master minding a mutiny by the convicts - which earns him six months solitary confinement upon his arrival at Macquarie Harbour, the site of the toughest convict prison in Tasmania. A punishing regime of hard labour follows, overseen by Captain Vickers (Patrick Macnee), the tough but fair commander of the prison colony.

    The same cannot be said of his deputy, Lieutenant Maurice Frere (Rod Mullinar), a sadistic disciplinarian who proceeds to bully, abuse and provoke Dawes. When he finally snaps and attacks his tormentor, more solitary confinement follows - this time on a bleak isolated rock out to sea. Frere's vicious behaviour shows dramatically how power can quickly create a monster. In desperation, Dawes jumps off the rock and manages to swim ashore.

    At the same time, the penal settlement is moved west/east from Macquarie Harbour to Port Arthur, and in another convict mutiny at sea, Frere is captured by convicts and abandoned on a beach, together with Major Vickers' wife (Samantha Eggar) and daughter Sylvia (Penelope Stewart).

    By chance they come across the fleeing Dawes, who builds a coracle enabling them all to be rescued at sea. Frere promises Dawes a pardon, but subsequently goes back on his word and claims Dawes tried to kill him and the Vickers family - vivid proof of the impossibility of winning when faced with a compulsive liar. Dawes is sent to Port Arthur to continue his sentence, where he is ordered to flog another prisoner and then flogged himself for refusing to finish the requisite lashes .

    While working in the prison coal mine, the luckless Dawes is wrongly convicted yet again - this time of murdering a fellow prisoner, for which he is sentenced to death. He is saved by the bravery and humanity of the prison chaplain. The Reverend North - brilliantly played by Anthony Perkins - changes place with Dawes and gives him his clerical attire- enabling him to escape from Port Arthur to temporary freedom on a boat to Sydney . His miraculous escape is one of many unexpected twists in Marcus Clarke's riveting narrative.

    The sets for this epic movie are superb - the wilderness of Tasmania, the brutal environment of the prisons, the romance of sea voyages in the years of sail, not to mention the horror of storms at sea. 'For The Term Of His Natural Life' brings hardship, brutality, treachery, repression to stark reality. And most importantly, it shows the resilience of the human spirit in the face of impossible odds. It's not a happy tale, but without doubt you should not miss this exciting movie based on a dark chapter in English history.
    10grahamvr

    A REAL CLASSIC ....... MADE IN 1983

    I started watching this, first time I have seen it, as I thought it was just about a bunch of convicts on a ship heading for Van Demiens Land, now Australia. I had previously seen the Alan Ladd film Two Years Before the Mast and thought it would be similar, so wrong I was. This is truly a classic and if made again today I am sure would be a box office hit. It had a great cast of Australian, English and one American, Anthony Perkins. There was action, violence, drama, pathos, everything to make a great classic story. I gave this a 10 rating. Many would say it's not worth that by the standards of movies made today but this truly is in the realm of the classics. Try a find it if you can and watch the whole 5 hours approx. I saw it on a internet site called Kanopy which is a site you can connect to through your local library. I believe this is world wide.i
    7swift-4

    Settle down and enjoy the (lengthy) journey!

    Overall a great adaption to TV of the classic novel. Colin Friels does an admirable job of playing the protagonist, Rufas Dawes, and the chemistry between him and Rod Mullinar (Lt. Frere) is excellent. Whilst the plot remains by and large true to the novel, the writers of this made-for-TV version for some reason felt it necessary to give the movie a 'happily ever after' ending, hence the last hour or so of this lengthy movie is drastically different to the story originally told by Marcus Clarke. None-the-less, worth the watch if you enjoyed the book, or simply for the historical aspect (the Australian convict era). So be prepared to settle down and enjoy the (lengthy) journey!

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      Most of the mini-series was filmed in South Australia rather than Tasmania due to the infrastructure and know-how surrounding set construction
    • Citazioni

      Kirkland: [to Rufus Dawes] I'd rather you do it. They'll flog me anyway and it will be worse.

    • Connessioni
      Referenced in Radio Interview with Philippe Mora (1976)

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    Dettagli

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    • Data di uscita
      • 23 maggio 1983 (Australia)
    • Paese di origine
      • Australia
    • Sito ufficiale
      • Umbrella Entertainment [Australia]
    • Lingua
      • Inglese
    • Celebre anche come
      • Verbannt in die Hölle
    • Luoghi delle riprese
      • Port Arthur, Tasmania, Australia
    • Aziende produttrici
      • Filmco Limited
      • Patricia Payne Productions
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    • Tempo di esecuzione
      8 ore 40 minuti
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    • Proporzioni
      • 1.33 : 1

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