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The Settlement (1984 film)

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Director
  
Howard Rubie

Running time
  
1h 31m

Music director
  
Sven Libaek, Max Bowring

Country
  
Australia

5.2/10
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Duration
  

Screenplay
  
Ted Roberts

Writer
  
Ted Roberts

Language
  
English

The Settlement (1984 film) movie poster

Release date
  
1984

Cast
  
Bill Kerr
(Kearney),
John Jarratt
(Martin),
Lorna Lesley
(Joycie),
Tony Barry
(The Sergeant),
Katy Wild
(Mrs. Crow),
Alan Cassell
(Lohan)

Similar movies
  
Gallipoli (1981), Summer City (1977), The Delinquents (1989), Over the Hill (1992), Unfinished Sky (2007)

The Settlement is a 1984 Australian film directed by Howard Rubie and starring Bill Kerr and John Jarratt. It is set in Queensland in the 1950s.

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Plot

When two friendly drifters, Jack Kearney (Bill Kerr, Gallipoli) and Tommy Martin (John Jarratt, Wolf Creek) wander into the sleepy country township of Cedar Creek, there is nothing to prepare the innocent locals for the spectacle destined to unfold.

Intent to make loose ends meet and fill their empty pockets by swindling money from some of the naive locals, the two fellas settle in an abandoned shack on the outskirts of town. Befriended by former prostitute and social outcast Joycie (Lorna Lesley, Rabbit-Proof Fence), the two open-minded men welcome her into their home and their hearts, setting in motion a town scandal of considerable concern.

Establishing a sensational ménage à trois in an otherwise highly conservative environment, the loving threesome face the wrath of the greater community, as others in the town strongly disapprove of their new-age living arrangements and set their sights on a bit of good old fashioned outback home-wrecking.

Production

The film was shot over four weeks just outside Brisbane.

Reception

Bob Ellis later called it:

A wonderful film. It's a great film. It's like a film that Lawson never wrote but might have. It's sort of a menage a trois outside a country town. I like, particularly, the man played by Tony Barry. He waits for his wife outside while she goes to church. That's what my father did to my mother.

References

The Settlement (1984 film) Wikipedia
The Settlement (1984 film) IMDb The Settlement (1984 film) themoviedb.org