Is There Anybody There (film)
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Genre Crime Fiction Country Australia | 8.2/10 Duration Language English | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date 1976 Writer Bruce A. Wishart (screenplay) Cast (Marianne Dickinson), Charles 'Bud' Tingwell (Redwood), (Duncan), (Rosa), Gordon McDougall (Cookson), (John Hersey)Similar movies Mad Max: Fury Road , Taken 3 , John Wick , The Hunger Games: Catching Fire , A Walk Among the Tombstones , The Loft |
Is There Anybody There? is a 1976 Australian TV movie directed by Peter Maxwell. It has been called the first colour tele movie made in Australia.
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A beautiful woman, Kate (Tina Grenville), is released from a sanatorium unaware that while she was away her husband John (George Lazenby) has begun an affair with her sister Marianne (Wendy Hughes). The two sisters live together in a creepy apartment block while John is away, and find themselves stalked by some mysterious strangers.
Synopsis

A beautiful woman, Kate (Tina Grenville), is released from a sanatorium unaware that while she was away her husband John (George Lazenby) has begun an affair with her sister Marianne (Wendy Hughes). The two sisters live together in a creepy apartment block while John is away, and find themselves stalked by some mysterious strangers, Rosa (Chantal Contouri) and Duncan (Patrick Ward).
Marianne believes that she is being confused with Kate - but it turns out the whole thing is a plot by Kate to revenge herself on Marianne and John. Marianne accidentally shoots John to death and then Kate shoots Marianne and escapes with Johns money and her lover, Duncan - who has murdered Rosa.
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Production
Robert Bruning had previously made a TV movie for Channel 9 called Paradise (1975) which he later called "terrible". He calls this film "the first of the true-all film tele features". It rated very well on Channel 7 and launched him on a series of TV movies for Australian TV.
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