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Queensland (film)

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Language
  
English

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Country
  
Australia

Release date
  
1976 (1976)

Writer
  
John Ruane, Ellery Ryan

Queensland john ruane 1975 drama


Queensland is a 1976 film directed by John Ruane and starring John Flaus and Robert Karl.

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Plot

Doug is a factory worker living in Melbourne who dreams of moving from Melbourne to Queensland. He attempts to reconnect with an old flame, Marge, and move to Queensland together.

Cast

  • John Flaus as Doug
  • Bob Karl as Aub
  • Alison Bird as Marge
  • Tom Broadbridge as Mick
  • Production

    John Ruane says he was inspired by a newspaper article about a slaughter man who killed his de facto wife and then got drunk for two days. He decided to remove the killing aspect, concentrate on the relationship. Ruane:

    What we were trying to do then, strangely enough, was trying to imitate Summer of the Seventeenth Doll in reverse and to imitate Midnight Cowboy, a sort of Northcote version of Midnight Cowboy - not the story, but the fact that they were headed for a dream. Their dream was Miami. Our film was obviously about heading to Queensland... It's about a vanishing breed of Australians.

    The film was made with money from the Experimental Film and Television Fund while John Ruane was a film student at the Swinburne College of Technology in Melbourne.

    Release

    The movie was released through the co-operative movement.

    References

    Queensland (film) Wikipedia
    Queensland (film) themoviedb.org Queensland (film) IMDb


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