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Down and out with Jack Charles

Documentary Bastardy captures the beggared and destitute recent years in the life of prolific Indigenous actor Jack Charles. Sad and pitiable, but there is something pleasantly candid about Charles’s eloquence.

Luke Buckmaster

Jun 22, 2009

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