Metro Australia — January 2018

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invaluable contribution of key female production personnel to the
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and distribution, among various other factors.

Production and release


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fancifully introduced to attract unlikely and only ever lukewarm
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international screening schedule and release. Much of the writing

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emphasis that seemed somewhat out of kilter with his supporting
role as Palmer, the ironic decision to have him play an American
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characterisation. Taylor’s role also brought to the surface the per
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and elsewhere.
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ments the demise of Australian production interests in the 1940s
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tions struggling to compete with more streamlined and increasingly
mechanised forms of cinema imported from overseas. Palmer is
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and other innovations, though, tellingly, we are never actually privy

MAIN CAST‘Pop’ PymJohnMeillonPalmerRod TaylorFreddieJohn EwartLarryHarold HopkinsFitzwilliamPatrick Cargill
Madame Cavalli-HOHQDnLJRQLucySally ConabereLouGarry McDonaldMiss LockhartJudy MorrisMrs DuncanJeanie Drynan
PolicemanTony BarryMajor LockhartDon Crosby35,1&,3$/ &5(',76Year of Release 1977 Length 98 minutes
DirectorJohn PowerScreenplayJoan Long, based on the book by Lyle PennProduction CompanyLimelight Productions
Producer Joan LongProduction ManagerSue MillikenCinematographyGeoff BurtonEditorNicholas Beauman
Art DirectionDavid CoppingCostume DesignJudith DorsmanMusicPeter Best
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