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Issue Details: First known date: 2002... 2002 Dirty Deeds
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'It's Sydney in 1969 and the Mafia have just sent Tony and Sal, a couple of Chicago hoods, to Australia to get a cut from the profits of the illegal gambling which is flourishing due to Yank soldiers on R&R from Vietnam. Barry Ryan who runs Sydney's shady end of town doesn't think much of this idea and co-opts his nephew, Darcy, his wife, Sharon, and mistress, Margaret, into helping him keep the Mafia at bay. A trip to the outback is what he has in mind.'

Source: Screen Australia. (Sighted: 24/1/2014)

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

Form: screenplay
    • Strawberry Hills, Inner Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales,: Currency Press , 2002 .
      Alternative title: Dirty Deeds : The Screenplay
      Extent: xviii, 91p., [8]p. of platesp.
      Description: illus.
      ISBN: 0868196835

Works about this Work

Best Films Depicting Australia’s Obsession with Gambling Jack Roberts , 2018 single work column
— Appears in: FilmInk , 5 September 2018;
The 100 Best Australian Films of the New Millenium Erin Free , Dov Kornits , Travis Johnson , 2016 single work column
— Appears in: FilmInk , 22 September 2016;
Untitled Jonathan Dawson , 2003 single work review
— Appears in: Australasian Drama Studies , October no. 43 2003; (p. 179-183)

— Review of Dirty Deeds David Caesar , 2002 single work film/TV ; Rabbit-Proof Fence Christine Olsen , 2002 single work film/TV
Film & Video Carolyn Croft , 2002 single work review
— Appears in: Crime Factory , November no. 8 2002; (p. 62)

— Review of Dirty Deeds David Caesar , 2002 single work film/TV
Caesar's Palace Peter Lawrance (interviewer), 2002 single work interview
— Appears in: Crime Factory , November no. 8 2002; (p. 16-18)
Film & Video Carolyn Croft , 2002 single work review
— Appears in: Crime Factory , November no. 8 2002; (p. 62)

— Review of Dirty Deeds David Caesar , 2002 single work film/TV
Untitled Jonathan Dawson , 2003 single work review
— Appears in: Australasian Drama Studies , October no. 43 2003; (p. 179-183)

— Review of Dirty Deeds David Caesar , 2002 single work film/TV ; Rabbit-Proof Fence Christine Olsen , 2002 single work film/TV
Caesar's Palace Peter Lawrance (interviewer), 2002 single work interview
— Appears in: Crime Factory , November no. 8 2002; (p. 16-18)
The 100 Best Australian Films of the New Millenium Erin Free , Dov Kornits , Travis Johnson , 2016 single work column
— Appears in: FilmInk , 22 September 2016;
Best Films Depicting Australia’s Obsession with Gambling Jack Roberts , 2018 single work column
— Appears in: FilmInk , 5 September 2018;
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