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Mad Max: Hugh Keays-Byrne as Toecutter

1979

Mad Max: Hugh Keays-Byrne as Toecutter

1979

  • NFSA IDF2KW2YCF
  • TypeFilm
  • MediumMoving Image
  • FormStill Image
  • GenresAction
  • Year1979

Toecutter, portrayed by Hugh Keays-Byrne, is the main antagonist in Mad Max andthe ruthless leader of a merciless motorcycle gang terrorising the outback roads.

His penultimate act of savagery is tracking down Max's wife, Jessie, and their son and mowing them both down on the highway in cold blood. This is the incident that incites Max's path of revenge.

This production still effectively captures Hugh Keays-Byrne's characterisation of Toecutter. His villain is eloquently spoken, almost Shakespearean with Messianic pretensions, but always with a simmering menace.

In short, Keays-Byrne's Toecutter is affably evil. His flowing robes in this image suggest a Christ-like figure and he holds his rifle in an oddly mannered, offhand fashion.

Keays-Byrne returned to the Mad Max franchise in 2015 to play Immortan Joe in Mad Max: Fury Road.

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Toecutter, portrayed by Hugh Keays-Byrne, is the main antagonist in Mad Max andthe ruthless leader of a merciless motorcycle gang terrorising the outback roads.

His penultimate act of savagery is tracking down Max's wife, Jessie, and their son and mowing them both down on the highway in cold blood. This is the incident that incites Max's path of revenge.

This production still effectively captures Hugh Keays-Byrne's characterisation of Toecutter. His villain is eloquently spoken, almost Shakespearean with Messianic pretensions, but always with a simmering menace.

In short, Keays-Byrne's Toecutter is affably evil. His flowing robes in this image suggest a Christ-like figure and he holds his rifle in an oddly mannered, offhand fashion.

Keays-Byrne returned to the Mad Max franchise in 2015 to play Immortan Joe in Mad Max: Fury Road.

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