Product Details

• Actors: Dennis Hopper, Jack Thompson, David Gulpilil, Frank Thring, Michael Pate
• Format: Color, DVD, Widescreen, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: R (Restricted)
• Studio: TROMA ENTERTAINMENT INC.
• DVD Release Date: March 29, 2005
• Run Time: 102 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B0007OY2V2
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #233,151 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Mad Dog Morgan" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

Editorial Reviews

Review

THE BEST AUSTRALIAN FILM OF THE '70s --Financial Times

A tour de force! --Variety

A STUNNING EPIC... Dennis Hopper has never been better. --The Los Angeles Times

Product Description

Dennis Hopper plays Dan Morgan, the infamous real-life 1800’s outlaw. Morgan is an Irish immigrant working as a gold digger in the treacherous Australian brush. Rejected by his comrades, Morgan resorts to stealing horses - only to be caught and sentenced to jail. After years of abuse and brutality he is released and falls back into his bandit ways. Soon Morgan is wanted at any price, dead or alive, setting the backdrop for this intense and riveting thriller.

DVD Features:

-Informative and inspiring introduction by Lloyd Kaufman, President of Troma Entertainment and creator of The Toxic Avenger!

-Fascinating interview with Philippe Mora, director of Mad Dog Morgan!

-The Make Your Own Damn Movie Box Set film school in a box!

-Original theatrical trailers for Pterodactyl Woman from Beverly Hills and Rowdy Girls, Foreplay, The Wedding Party and Madigan’s Millions!

-Radiation March

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Wrong aspect ratio on Troma DVD transfer, January 2, 2006

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a listener "a listener" (pacific northwest) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Mad Dog Morgan (DVD)

The film was originally shot in the 2.35:1 aspect ratio. But this 2005 DVD release from Troma Entertainment presents the film in a 1.66:1 aspect ratio print cropped directly from the "pan and scan" full-screen print that was made for VHS releases. The film has never been seen in its original 2.35:1 aspect ratio since its theatrical release.

13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Talk About a Sleeper!, May 10, 2000

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"oscar_freak" - See all my reviews

This review is from: Mad Dog Morgan [VHS] (VHS Tape)

I picked this movie on a whim, having nothing better to do that Saturday afternoon, and man, was I glad that I did. Filmed in 1976, this fairly low-budget movie stars Dennis Hopper as an Irish prospector-turned-outlaw during the Australian gold rush of the 1850s-1860s. He joins forces with an aboriginal renegade (played by David Gulpilil, who would cover similar territory a year later in the film of Thomas Keneally's THE CHANT OF JIMMIE BLACKSMITH) and goes on the lam, evading psychotic former prison guards and police. This movie, with its atmospheric cinematography, innovative folk music, rather seems like the Australian answer to BAD COMPANY. Hopper is really good as the harassed Morgan (with a respectable brogue, no less) and Frank Thring (who was rewarded with the greatest closing line in any movie since CASABLANCA), probably best known for playing Pontius Pilate in BEN HUR, is a sinister magistrate who tries to give Morgan his comeuppance. Don't overlook this movie.

15 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars ..Is this complete anywhere on dvd???, April 23, 2006

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Chris J. Stilley "Christ Bebe" (Dallas Tx) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Mad Dog Morgan (DVD)

....I was hugely dissapointed in the Troma release of this film..I thought finally after paying more for company dvd with a little more prestige that the usual bargain bin varieties..I'd be getting a complete version of this film finally on DVD!...NOPE..all the nasty tidbits were cut!..the Head getting blown thru at the beginning in the Chinese opium Den..the more graphics aspects of the prison rape..the bucket of animal guts scene...the [...] scene in the Bar..the old man mooning the Bush Cop...even the mention of the word Scrotum!..All cut in the Troma Release!...I'm sticking with my old Thorn EMI VHS!!!!..I'm Pissed!..cuz I love this movie!