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Film Details - Taylor Media , 2003

Producers:

Sue Taylor (producer).
Robyn Kershaw (executive producer).

Production Companies:

A Taylor Media production in association with ScreenWest and Optus Television.

Finance Organisations:

ScreenWest.

Director of Photography:

Simon Akkerman and Malcolm McCulloch.

Editors:

Meredith Watson Jeffrey.

Production Designers:

Clayton Jauncey.

Music:

Alan John.

Cast:

Including William McInnes (Roy Drewe), Angie Milliken (Dorothy Drewe), Tim Draxl (Robert Drewe), Zac Richmond (Robert Drewe: 11-14), Leeanna Walsman (Ruth Parnham), Dan Wyllie (Eric Cooke), Warren Mitchell (Ralph Wheatley), Andrew Warwick (Magistrate), Michael Loney (Ken Hatfield), Greg McNeill (Billy Graham), Humphrey Bower (Jim Chute), Ellen Cressey (Schoolteacher), Summer Williams (Posh Girl), Joshua Brennan (Nick Howell Jr), David Press (Detective Jenkins), Peter Docker (Detective Bunnings), Nick Sheppard (Sparrow Ranger), Bob Faggetter (Greengrocer), Marnie Louise Commens (Woman on Bike), Emma Booth (Roberta Ainslie), Geoffrey Gibbs (Mr Ainslie), Kazamir Sas (Simon Watson), Bill McCluskey (Detective McCurry), Eileen Colocott (Mrs Knopp), Caroline McKenzie (Mossman Woman), Geoff Kelso (Reverend Dowding), Bill Kerr (Mr Coleman), George Shevtsov (Dr Synot), Vivienne Garrett (Mrs Halliday), Maurie Ogden (Justice Virtue), and Mason Richardson (Michael Cooke).

Release Dates:

Aired on ABC Television on 10, 17, and 24 August 2003.

Location:

  • Filmed in Perth, Western Australia.

Awards:

  • Screen Music Award, Best Music for a Mini-Series or Telemovie (won), 2004.
  • Logie Award, Most Outstanding Actress in a Drama Series (nominated), 2004.
  • Logie Award, Most Outstanding Actor in a Drama Series (nominated), 2004.
  • Logie Award, Most Outstanding Actor in a Drama Series (nominated), 2004.
Subjects:
  • 1950s
  • 1960s
Settings:
  • Inner Perth, Perth, Western Australia,
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