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Screen cap from promotional trailer
Adaptation of
The Getting of Wisdom
1910
single work
novel
Issue Details:
First known date:
1978...
1978
The Getting Of Wisdom
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Film Details - Southern Cross Films , 1978
Producers:
Phillip Adams.
Production Companies:
Southern Cross Films.
Finance Organisations:
The Australian Film Commission and Film Victoria.
Director of Photography:
Donald McAlpine.
Editors:
William Anderson.
Catherine Millar worked as assistant editor on this film.
Production Designers:
John Stoddart.
Cast:
Including Julia Blake (Isabella Shepherd), Dorothy Bradley (Miss Hicks), Kay Eklund (Mrs Rambotham), Max Fairchild (Mr O'Donnell), Jan Friedl (Miss Snodgrass), Diana Greentree (Maisie Shepherd), Maggie Kirkpatrick (Sarah), Monica Maughan (Miss Day), Candy Raymond (Miss Zielinski), Terence Donovan (Tom McNamara), Kerry Armstrong (Kate), Celia De Burgh (M.P.), Kim Deacon (Lilith), Alix Longman (Chinky), Jo-Anne Moore (Tilly), Amanda Ring (Cupid), Hilary Ryan (Evelyn), Janet Shaw (Bertha), Karen Sutton (Pin), Sigrid Thornton (Maria), Sheila Helpmann (Mrs Gurley), Patricia Kennedy (Miss Chapman), John Waters (Reverend Shepherd), Barry Humphries (Reverend Strachey), and Susannah Fowle (Laura Tweedle Rambotham).
Release Dates:
17 August 1978 (Australia).
Location:
- Filmed in Victoria, including Ballarat and Melbourne.
Subjects:
- Urban,
- 1880s
Settings:
- Melbourne, Victoria,
- Bush,
