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Film Details - Smart Street Films , 1974
Producers:
Haydn Keenan.
Production Companies:
Smart St Films.
Director of Photography:
Michael Edols.
Editors:
Richard Moir and Esben Storm.
Music:
Winsome Evans.
Cast:
Robert McDarra (Billy Donald), Bill Hunter (Cornish), Graham Corry (Peter Newman), Richard Moir (Richard), James Kemp (Slattery), Kris Olsen (Gloria), Brian Doyle (Lynch), Rick Creaser (Jeremy), Michael Norton (Mark), David Curtiss (Doctor), Haydn Keenan (Jeffrey), Gary McFeeter (Samuel), Tom Farley (Vic), Peter Gailey (Co-Escapee), Bob Lee (Mullet Gut), Philip Jay (Old Psychiatrist), Rick Ireland (Benjamin), Race Gailey (Office Boy), Karl Florsheim (German Patient), Beth Brookes (Singer), John Marshall (Darkie), Bob Maza (Darkie's Mate), Zack Martin (Ernie), Kenneth Burnett (Patient), Pauline Foxall (Pianist), Kevin Healey (Old Acquaintance), Betty Dyson (Drunkess), Robert Ewing (Public Servant), Max Osbiston (Frederick Parsons), and Guy Le Claire (Narrator: voice).
Release Dates:
5 June 1974 (Australia).
Awards:
- Lead actor Robert McDarra was also won the Hoyts Prize for Best Performance at the 1973 AFI Awards.
Notes:
The film was selected for preservation (as part of a group of fifty Australian films) as part of the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia's Kodak / Atlab Cinema Collection Restoration Project.
This film's opening prologue states 'Under Section 27A of the Queensland Mental Health Act a prisoner may be transferred from a Prison to a Mental Institution and held there beyond the original sentence, indefinitely'.
