Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985) Movie Review

Analog Jones and the Temple of Film: VHS Podcast

Two men enter. One podcast leaves! Analog Jones continues its Mad Max franchise review with Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome from 1985.

Quick Facts
Directed by George Miller and George Ogilvie
Written by Terry Hayes (who also wrote Payback starring Mel Gibson) and George Miller
Based on Characters by George Miller and Byron Kennedy
Produced by George Miller
Distributed by Roadshow Film and Warner Bros.
Released on July 10, 1985
Budget of $10 million
Box Office of $36 million

Starring

• Mel Gibson as "Mad" Max Rockatansky, a lone warrior who was an MFP officer before the collapse of society.
• Tina Turner as Aunty Entity, the ruthless, determined ruler of Bartertown. Aunty is a glamorous, Amazon-like figure who recognizes Max's strength and hopes to exploit his physical power to bring Master under her control.
• Frank Thring as The Collector who runs Bartertown's trade and exchange network.
• Angelo Rossitto as The Master, a diminutive former engineer who used his technical expertise to build the methane extractor responsible for Bartertown's electricity
• Paul Larsson as The Blaster, Master's enormous, silent bodyguard, who is revealed to have an intellectual disability.
• Bruce Spence as Jedediah, a marauding pilot of a small plane that is NOT the Gryo Captain from the Road Warrior film.
• Helen Buday as Savannah Nix, one of the oldest members of an isolated primitive tribe of teenager/child survivors of a plane crash.
• Angry Anderson as Ironbar Bassey, the head of Bartertown's security and Aunty's top Henchman
• Robert Grubb as Pig Killer, a convict, Bartertown sentenced to shovel pig feces in the methane refinery for killing a pig to feed his children.

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