The Chant Of Jimmie Blacksmith

This offbeat, violent film stars nonprofessional Tommy Lewis as the title character, a half-white Australian aborigine who is raised by a Methodist minister. Torn between the white and aborigine world, he leaves the latter to live among the whites. After apparently getting a white serving girl pregnant and marrying her, Lewis is allowed to live and work on a farmer's estate. When the child turns out to have a white father, Jimmie still accepts it, but his white employers ostracize him. When they take in his wife and child and refuse to pay him, Jimmie's resentment leads to a violent rampage. Fred Schepisi's attempt to show the mistreatment of aborigines in Australi...