''Dead Easy'' is an Australian film released on 1 June 1970.
Plot
A student of criminology is completing a thesis on Melbourne mass murderers. With the aid of a German professor he visits the scenes of the crimes of
Frederick Deeming,
Norman List,
Arnold Sodeman and
Edward Leonski and reconstructs them.
One day the students visits the professor and sees him attacked by two strangers. The professor knifes one of the men.
Cast
*Peter Carmody as the student
*Kurt Beimelas the professor
*Anna Raknes as the girlfriend
*
Peter Cummins
Donald Cummins (2 June 1931 – October 2024), better known as Peter Cummins, was an Australian actor of stage and screen and chorister who was especially prominent in the 1970s and appeared in some of the most famous Australian films of the pe ...
as the stranger
*David Car as a stranger
*Martin Phelan as cameraman
*Brian Davies as friend
*
Bruce Spence
Bruce Robert Spence (born 17 September 1945) is a New Zealand-born Australian actor. Spence has amassed over 100 film and television credits and has also acted in theatre.
Career
Spence won an AFI Award for Best Actor for his role in the 197 ...
as friend
*Shirley Carr
*
Alan Finney
Production
The film was shot in January 1970 in and around Melbourne. It received a limited release.
[Andrew Pike and Ross Cooper, ''Australian Film 1900–1977: A Guide to Feature Film Production'', Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1998 p250]
References
External links
''Dead Easy''at
IMDb
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''Dead Easy''at Oz Movies
Australian thriller films
1970s English-language films
1970 films
1970 thriller films
Films directed by Nigel Buesst
1970s Australian films
English-language thriller films
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