OUTBACK...Every blow hits home..Check this one out
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OUTBACK
(1971) Australian/British production; terrific but brutal story of a teacher stranded inside a small town in the remote Australian outback where the main entertainment is drinking, fighting and butchering kangaroos, notorious for its graphic scenes of kangaroos having their heads blown off; often called the most authentic depiction of the Australian outback… even though it was directed by Ted Kotcheff, a Canadian; starring Donald Pleasence, Gary Bond, Chips Rafferty, Sylvia Kay, Jack Thompson; also known as WAKE IN FRIGHT; {the visual quality of this print is rated as A}
Yet another first-class film made in Australia by foreigners (a Canadian director working for a British studio), during the long period from World War II to the early 1970s when Australian cinema lay fallow. Like many other good ones - "The Overlanders" (1946), "They're a Weird Mob" (1966), "Age of Consent" (1969), "Walkabout" (1971) - although "Walkabout" is more seriously flawed than the others I've named - it doesn't feel like a foreign film; it feels as if the director made an honest attempt to be Australian, and succeeded. It's interesting that all these films are British. American films shot in Australia during the same period are, without qualification, American films; one scarcely even notices that "On the Beach" was shot in Melbourne rather than, say, Capetown or Tierra del Fuego, however many trams and banksias there may be.
The central character is clearly English; just as clearly, he doesn't like Australia. But I suspect that even in 1971 a greater proportion of Australians would have felt themselves to have been trapped in Hell if they'd been in his circumstances, than English. A greater proportion of Australians, then as now, live in cities, and the outback is further away from over 90% of Australians than anything is from anyone in England.
It's interesting that this fellow should be so RIGHT about everything (The Yabba IS a "bloody terrible" place, the hospitality he encounters DOES border on aggression, the game of two-up IS about as simple-minded and dull as it's possible for a game of chance to be), and yet be such an unsympathetic, unimaginative prig with scarcely more insight than he has backbone. He always needs a local to tell him what's going on and even then he doesn't get it. Yet we follow him with fascination and real concern all the same.
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(1971) Australian/British production; terrific but brutal story of a teacher stranded inside a small town in the remote Australian outback where the main entertainment is drinking, fighting and butchering kangaroos, notorious for its graphic scenes of kangaroos having their heads blown off; often called the most authentic depiction of the Australian outback… even though it was directed by Ted Kotcheff, a Canadian; starring Donald Pleasence, Gary Bond, Chips Rafferty, Sylvia Kay, Jack Thompson; also known as WAKE IN FRIGHT; {the visual quality of this print is rated as A}
Yet another first-class film made in Australia by foreigners (a Canadian director working for a British studio), during the long period from World War II to the early 1970s when Australian cinema lay fallow. Like many other good ones - "The Overlanders" (1946), "They're a Weird Mob" (1966), "Age of Consent" (1969), "Walkabout" (1971) - although "Walkabout" is more seriously flawed than the others I've named - it doesn't feel like a foreign film; it feels as if the director made an honest attempt to be Australian, and succeeded. It's interesting that all these films are British. American films shot in Australia during the same period are, without qualification, American films; one scarcely even notices that "On the Beach" was shot in Melbourne rather than, say, Capetown or Tierra del Fuego, however many trams and banksias there may be.
The central character is clearly English; just as clearly, he doesn't like Australia. But I suspect that even in 1971 a greater proportion of Australians would have felt themselves to have been trapped in Hell if they'd been in his circumstances, than English. A greater proportion of Australians, then as now, live in cities, and the outback is further away from over 90% of Australians than anything is from anyone in England.
It's interesting that this fellow should be so RIGHT about everything (The Yabba IS a "bloody terrible" place, the hospitality he encounters DOES border on aggression, the game of two-up IS about as simple-minded and dull as it's possible for a game of chance to be), and yet be such an unsympathetic, unimaginative prig with scarcely more insight than he has backbone. He always needs a local to tell him what's going on and even then he doesn't get it. Yet we follow him with fascination and real concern all the same.
Notice: DVDS Do Not Contain Original Artwork Sleeves.
Films are obtained through overseas sources and are not subject to US Copyrights. Shipped in DVD Case with Label.
