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The Dark Room (1982 Film)
''The Dark Room'' is a 1982 Australian thriller film directed by Paul Harmon, son of Bill Harmon. Plot Ray Sangster, a bored middle-class man, has an affair with a younger woman, Nicky. Ray's son Mike discovers the affair and becomes obsessed with Nicky. Cast * Alan Cassell as Ray Sangster *Anna Maria Monticelli (Anna Jemison) as Nicky *Svet Kovich as Mike Sangster *Diana Davidson as Martha Sangster *Ric Hutton as Sam Bitel *Rowena Wallace as Liz Llewellyn *Sean Myers as Peter * Sally Cooper as Patricia * Joy Hruby as Ida Henning Production Michael Brindley wrote a script based on a story by himself and Paul Harmon. Basil Appleby was originally meant to be producer but financiers Filmco did not want him to do the job and Malcolm Smith did it. Then Smith left and documentary producer Tom Haydon produced instead. The movie was known as ''Double Exposure'' during filmling. There was a two-week rehearsal period in which actors rewrote dialogue and treated Harmon badly. Filming sta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anna Jemison
Anna Maria Monticelli is an Australian actress, screenwriter and producer. Career Monticelli won the 1984 AFI Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for her role in '' Silver City''. In 2001 she was nominated for the AFI Award for Best Original Screenplay for '' La Spagnola''. At the 2008 Australian Writers Guild Awards (AWGIES) she won the best feature film adaptation for her screenplay of J. M. Coetzee's '' Disgrace''. At the Film Critics Circle of Australia Awards she won the 2010 Award for Best Screenplay for '' Disgrace'' and was nominated for Best Film in 2010 (producer) for ''Disgrace'' and for Best Screenplay - Original in 2002 for '' La Spagnola''. Personal life Monticelli is married to actor and director Steve Jacobs Steve Jacobs is an Australian actor and film director. Career Jacob's debut role was in this television film ''Man of Letters'' in 1984. The same year he appeared in feature film '' Silver City''. In 1985, Jacobs appeared in 4 episodes of TV ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alan Cassell
Alan Louis Cassell (16 February 1932 – 30 August 2017) was an English Australian actor, on stage, film and television. Personal life Alan Cassell was born in Manchester, England but grew up in Birmingham. Cassell was of a young age when his mother was admitted to the Rubery Lunatic Asylum after she suffered brain damage following a visit to a dentist. It is believed the dentist had left the gas on for too long which caused the brain damage. Cassell worked as a motor trimmer in an Austin Motor Company car factory in Birmingham during the 1950s. He also performed national service, although a senior officer convinced him not to volunteer for service in the Korean War. After meeting a woman called Rosina, they married and in 1957 emigrated to Perth in Western Australia as " Ten Pound Poms", where he continued his work as a motor trimmer before moving to the sales department. The couple had two sons. From 1983, Cassell lived in Victoria. He was a prominent member of the Save A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cameron Allan
Cameron Beck Allan (July 9, 1955 – June 25, 2013) was an Australian-born American-based composer, record producer, filmmaker and former label owner. In September 1978 he co-founded the record label Regular Records with fellow filmmaker Martin Fabinyi. Their first signing was the new wave group Mental As Anything, and their second was the pub rock band Flowers. Allan produced both groups' early work. His TV and film music compositions include '' Stir'' (1980), ''The Umbrella Woman'' (1987, ''The Good Wife'') ''Kojak: Ariana'' (1989), and ''Kojak: Flowers for Matty'' (1990). In 1986 he relocated to the United States and in July 1992 he married Margaret Wertheim, a science writer. The couple had separated by 2007. Cameron Allan died of liver failure, after a transplant, aged 57. Biography Cameron Beck Allan was born on July 9, 1955, in Melbourne but grew up in Sydney with a younger brother, Richard. He attended Meadowbank Boys High School and then the Sydney Conservatorium ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
English Language
English is a West Germanic language that developed in early medieval England and has since become a English as a lingua franca, global lingua franca. The namesake of the language is the Angles (tribe), Angles, one of the Germanic peoples that Anglo-Saxon settlement of Britain, migrated to Britain after its End of Roman rule in Britain, Roman occupiers left. English is the list of languages by total number of speakers, most spoken language in the world, primarily due to the global influences of the former British Empire (succeeded by the Commonwealth of Nations) and the United States. English is the list of languages by number of native speakers, third-most spoken native language, after Mandarin Chinese and Spanish language, Spanish; it is also the most widely learned second language in the world, with more second-language speakers than native speakers. English is either the official language or one of the official languages in list of countries and territories where English ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anna Maria Monticelli
Anna Maria Monticelli is an Australian actress, screenwriter and producer. Career Monticelli won the 1984 AFI Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for her role in '' Silver City''. In 2001 she was nominated for the AFI Award for Best Original Screenplay for '' La Spagnola''. At the 2008 Australian Writers Guild Awards (AWGIES) she won the best feature film adaptation for her screenplay of J. M. Coetzee's '' Disgrace''. At the Film Critics Circle of Australia Awards The Film Critics Circle of Australia (FCCA) is an association of film criticism, cinema critics and film review, reviewers. It includes journalists in "media, television, major national and state papers, radio, national and state, online and fr ... she won the 2010 Award for Best Screenplay for '' Disgrace'' and was nominated for Best Film in 2010 (producer) for ''Disgrace'' and for Best Screenplay - Original in 2002 for '' La Spagnola''. Personal life Monticelli is married to actor and director Steve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rowena Wallace
Rowena Wallace (born 23 August 1947) is an English-born Australian stage and screen actress, most especially in the genre of television soap opera. She is best known for her Gold Logie-winning role as conniving Patricia "Pat the Rat" Hamilton/Morrell/Palmer in '' Sons and Daughters'', being the first soap star to win the Gold Logie. After leaving the series and being replaced in the role by Belinda Giblin, Wallace returned in the final season as Patricia's sister Pamela Hudson. She started her career on the small screen in the late 1960s in serial '' You Can't See 'Round Corners'' as well as appearing in that serial's film version and then had regular roles in TV series including Crawford Productions ''Division 4'', '' Number 96'' and '' Cop Shop'' and in 1980–1981 became well known for her stint as Anne Griffin in cult series ''Prisoner.'' After '' Sons and Daughters'', she subsequently appeared primarily in guest roles and cameos in numerous TV serials, before again retu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sally Cooper (actress)
Sally Cooper is an Australian actress. For her performance in '' Simone de Beauvoir's Babies'' she was nominated for the 1997 Australian Film Institute Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role in a Television Drama. Cooper's career began with the lead role in ''Gail'' on ABC TV followed by '' All the Green Year'', Network Ten's ''Prisoner'' and an eight-week run on Ten's ''The Restless Years''. Other roles include '' Moving Out'' and '' Simone de Beauvoir's Babies'' in 1997. She played Maggie Hancock on ''Neighbours''. Cooper has appeared on stage in plays such as ''After Dinner'' for the Melbourne Theatre Company and ''Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet)'' for State Theatre Company of South Australia. Filmography Screen * ''Gail'' as Lead role * '' All the Green Year'' (TV series) (1980) * ''Prisoner'' (TV series) * ''The Restless Years'' (TV series) * '' Moving Out'' (Film) (1983) * '' Simone de Beauvoir's Babies'' (TV miniseries) (1997) * ''Neighbours ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joy Hruby
Joy Elaine Hruby (1 July 1927 – 21 February 2017) was an Australian actress and entertainer, comedian, TV presenter and interviewer, producer, film-maker, author and celebrity agent with a career spanning more than 50 years. Hruby appeared in films including ''Caddie'', ''The Love Letters from Teralba Road'', ''Winter of our Dreams'', and '' Kitty and the Bagman''. Hruby had small roles in TV soap operas including, '' Sons and Daughters'' and ''Home and Away'', '' G.P.'' and '' All Saints'' and featured the mini-series ''Brides of Christ'', she also appeared in numerous theatre productions and entered films into Tropfest. Biography Hruby was born in Taree, New South Wales, the fourth of five siblings to Grace Adelaide Esther Thomas, a public speaker, union woman, community worker and suffragist and Henry "Harry" James Cox, who was a station master at Dubbo during WWII, and ham radio enthusiast and maker of steel guitars. She married Czech jazz pianist Zdenek Hruby in 1954 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Filmco
Filmco was an Australian investment company used by producers to raise funds to invest in Australian movies. It flourished during the 10BA era. The company was formed in 1980 by Peter Fox and Bob Sanders (who merged his Pact Productions into the company). Pact Productions had provided finance for ''Harlequin''. ''Breaker Morant'' and ''Sara Dane''; it was a subsidiary of Adelaide Holdings. They were joined by John Fitzgerald, a former lawyer at the South Australian Film Corporation, who acted as executive producer. David Stratton wrote that "the Filmco slate consisted of some of the most dismal films ever produced in Australia" and represented "a scandalous waste of money". In June 1981 it was announced Filmco helped raise finance for ''Burning Man'', ''Something Wicked this way comes'', ''For the Term of His Natural Life'', ''Double Deal'' and ''Billy West'', and it would raise money for ''Turkey Shoot''. Peter Fox was killed in a car accident on 1 December 1981. In 1985 a ju ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Early Frost
''Early Frost'' is a 1982 Australian thriller film starring Guy Doleman, Jon Blake, Diana McLean and David Franklin. Plot While gathering evidence for a divorce case, private detective Mike Hayes discovers a corpse. He suspects the death - officially listed as an accident - to be murder, but how, why and committed by who? The husband or the mistress? The more Mike investigates, the more convoluted, complicated and sinister the situation becomes. Hayes meets David Prentice who keeps a scrapbook on violent crime and gets further information about the temperamental and schizophrenic Val Meadows, the mistress, and learns of her fears. She suspects that someone is trying to kill her. She has set her two sons off on a "Don't do as I do, do as I say" kind of existence, where mindless punishments are used as a substitute for love and understanding. The wife, Peg Prentice, on the other hand, is too indulgent with her son David - accepting his disobedience - because he is the only ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
For The Term Of His Natural Life (miniseries)
''For the Term of His Natural Life'' is a 1983 Australian three-part, six-hour television miniseries based on the classic 1874 novel of the same name by Marcus Clarke. Each episode aired for two hours on Nine Network on 23 May, 30 May and 6 June 1983. Plot Well-educated but adventurous young British aristocrat, Richard Devine, son of Sir Richard Devine, learns his mother's secret - his biological father is in fact Lord Bellasis. To protect his mother's reputation, he leaves home to take ship to India, but is arrested after Lord Bellasis is murdered. He is tried for murder and acquitted but found guilty of theft of a pocket-watch which was given him by Lord Bellasis. Under the alias of Rufus Dawes, he is sentenced to transportation for life. Dawes is shipped to Van Diemen's Land on the ''Malabar'', which also carries Captain Vickers, who is to become the new commandant of the penal settlement at Macquarie Harbour, his wife Julia and child Sylvia, Julia's maid, Sarah Purfoy and Li ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Dangerous Summer
''A Dangerous Summer'' (aka ''Flash Fire'') is a 1982 Australian crime film drama film directed by Quentin Masters and starring Tom Skerritt, Ian Gilmour, Guy Doleman and James Mason. Premise Howard Anderson, a restless and discontented American, goes to Australia to team up with an old associate, Julian Fane. They plan the construction of a holiday resort. While Anderson is a builder who takes pride in his work, Fane's only motive in building is to burn down the resort in an insurance fraud. He hires an arsonist to carry out the work. Unfortunately, Fane's plans are triggered too soon and result in murder. Anderson, suspicious about events, forms an alliance with George Engels, an insurance investigator. Cast * Tom Skerritt as Howard Anderson * Ian Gilmour * Guy Doleman as Julian Fane * James Mason as George Engels * Giselle Morgan * Shane Porteous as Sergeant Goodwin * Ray Barrett as F.C.O. Webster * Norman Kaye as Percy Farley * Wendy Hughes as Sophie McCann * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
