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Issue Details: First known date: 1977... 1977 The Picture Show Man
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Film Details - Limelight Productions , 1977

Producers:

Joan Long.

Production Companies:

Limelight Productions.

Finance Organisations:

Australian Film Commission.
New South Wales Film Corporation.

Director of Photography:

Geoff Burton.

Editors:

Nicholas Beauman.

Production Designers:

David Copping.

Music:

Peter Best.

Cast:

Including John Meillon (Maurice 'Pop' Pym), Rod Taylor (Palmer), Yelena Zigon (Madame Cavalli), Judy Morris (Miss Lockhart), John Ewart (Freddie Graves), Harold Hopkins (Larry Pym), Patrick Cargill (Fitzwilliam), Garry McDonald (Lou), Sally Conabere (Lucy Lockheart), Donald Crosby (Major Lockhart), Dolore Whiteman (Mrs Summers), and Jeanie Drynan (Mrs Duncan).

Release Dates:

Released in Australia on 5 May 1977.

Premiered in the United States in October 1977 (Chicago International Film Festival).


Post Production:

Spectrum Films International.

Awards:

  • AFI Award, Best Actor in a Lead Role (nominated), 1977.
  • AFI Award, Best Actress in a Supporting Role (nominated), 1977.
  • AFI Award, Best Actor in a Supporting Role (won), 1977.
  • AFI Award, Best Original Music Score (won), 1977.
  • AFI Award, Best Achievement in Production Design (won), 1977.
  • AFI Award, Best Achievement in Costume Design (won), 1977.
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  • 1920s
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