Robbery Under Arms is a 1985 Australian action adventure film starring Sam Neill as bushranger Captain Starlight.
Joined by bush larrikin, Ben Marston (Ed Devereaux), and Ben's two adventure-hungry sons (Steven Vidler and Christopher Cummins), Starlight leads his gang of wild colonial boys in search of riches, romance – and other men's cattle.
Jock Blair first had the idea to remake the story in 1981 when he was working at the South Australian Film Corporation.
It was originally envisioned that it would be a mini series but it was budgeted at a million dollars an hour which was felt to be too expensive.
It shows much of the art, techniques and social atmosphere involved in the making of the film at Wilpena Pound and Hahndorf, as well as commentary by the major participants.