First dramatic film to run for more than 60 minutes; feature-length documentaries of boxing matches had been made before this, but this was the first dramatic full-length film.
Gang member Joe Byrne's actual suit of armour was borrowed from the Victorian Museum and worn in the film.
Only fragments of this film are known to survive.
Banned in Benalla and Wangarratta, Australia, in 1907 and in Adelaide in 1911.
Frank Mills was a Canadian who was a member of the Bland Holt touring company. He was clad in Ned Kelly's actual armor during filming but disappeared before it was finished. An extra had to complete the filming in long shots after Mills left.