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Film Details - Samson Productions ; South Australian Film Corporation , 1978

Producers:

Matt Carroll and Tom Jeffreys.

Production Companies:

Samson Productions.

Finance Organisations:

The Australian Film Commission and the South Australian Film Corporation.

Director of Photography:

Richard Wallace.

Editors:

Rod Adamson.

Production Designers:

Christopher Webster.

Music:

Charles Marawood.

Cast:

John Waters (Rabbit), Wyn Roberts (Sergeant Caxton), Graham Rouse (Ab Nolan), Melissa Jaffer (Vi), Keith Lee (Wayne), Bill Hunter (Bosun), Kit Taylor (Ryan), Barbara West (Helen), Les Foxcroft (Badger), Graeme Blundell (Bernie), Kevin Miles (The Superintendent), Audine Leith (Kathy Nolan), Don Barker (O'Dowd), David Hursthouse (Smith), Bryan Brown (Bennett), Rob George (Constable Forest), Ken Weaver (McCord), Les Dayman (Riley) , Hedley Cullen (Vi's father), Tony Barry (Wallace), Mark Gawenda (The Pole), Richard Lane (Young Harry), Stuart Campbell (Gibb). Tony Allison (Hennessey), Faith Kleinig (Mrs Foster).

Release Dates:

29 June 1978 (Australia).

Location:

Filmed in South Australia, including the Adelaide Hills, Adelaide, Blakiston, Littlehampton, and Macclesfield, as well as the studios of the Australian Film Corporation, in Norwood, South Australia.

Post Production:

Spectrum Films International.

United Sound (sound post-production).

Notes:

Script consultant: Moya Wood.

Assistant film editor: Andrew Prowse.

Subjects:

Settings:

Adelaide, South Australia,
1930s

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