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Run Rebecca, Run
''Run, Rebecca, Run'' is a 1981 Australian film directed by Peter Maxwell and starring Henri Szeps, Simone Buchanan, and John Ewart. Premise The screenplay concerns a child kidnapped by a refugee.David Stratton, ''The Avocado Plantation: Boom and Bust in the Australian Film Industry'', Pan MacMillan, 1990 p340 Cast * Henri Szeps * Simone Buchanan * John Ewart * John Stanton (actor), John Stanton Production It was shot in Sydney. References External links *Run Rebecca Runat Letterbox DVDRun Rebecca Run at Screen Australia Australian drama films 1981 films 1980s English-language films Films directed by Peter Maxwell 1980s Australian films {{1980s-Australia-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Maxwell
Peter Maxwell (23 January 1921 – 5 April 2013) born as Peter Magitai, was a British, and later Australian film director, director and screenwriter of television and film. Biography He was born in Vienna, Austria, to newspaper journalist Leo Magatai and wife Johanna, his family fled Vienna in the 1930s, and he changed his surname to enter the British Army, and after having been posted to India, returned to Britain to work as an assistant director to Alexander Korda in 1949, he worked briefly in Australia in the early 1960s, before returning to England. In 1967 he emigrated to Australia permanently, where he directed such films as ''Country Town'' and television series including ''Bellbird (TV series), Bellbird'', ''Riptide (Australian TV series), Rip Tide'' and ''A Country Practice''. Selected filmography * ''Blind Spot (1958 film), Blind Spot'' (1958) * ''The Desperate Man'' (1959) * ''The Ghost Train Murder'' (1959) * ''The Long Shadow (1961 film), The Long Shadow'' ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |