Director: Ted Kotcheff
Country: Australia
Year: 1971
Runtime: 109 minutes

Ted Kotcheff will be in attendance to introduce his film and participate in a Q&A afterward.

Detailing the life of a city school teacher stuck in an Australian outback town, this movie shows in great detail the ugly side of Australian country life that the Australian tourist authorities attempt to hide. Excellent performances by all the actors, including Donald Pleasance, Jack Thompson, John Mellion and the legendary Australian character actor Chips Rafferty (in his final film) help give the film a very gritty "real" texture.

Principal Cast: Donald Pleasence, Gary Bond

Producers: Howard G. Barnes, Bill Harmon, Maurice Singer, George Willoughby
Cinematographer: Brian West
Editor: Anthony Buckley

Directors Bio: Ted Kotcheff was born in Toronto, Canada. After graduating in English Literature at the University of Toronto, he began his professional career directing TV drama at age 24 at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. He was the youngest director in the CBC. His film career started in England: TIARA TIHITI, a social comedy starring James Mason and John Mills; LIFE AT THE TOP, starring Laurence Harvey and Jean Simmons; TWO GENTLEMEN SHARING, starring Robin Phillips, a film set in the West Indian community of London and dealing with relationships between black and white. His next film OUTBACK was made in Australia. It was the Australian entry in the Cannes Film Festival and many Australians still think it is the finest Australian film ever made and the beginning of the renaissance of the Australian cinema. Ted Kotcheff then returned to Canada in 1972 to make a film of a novel written by his best friend, Mordecai Richler, THE APPRENTICESHIP OF DUDDY KRAVITZ. This film, thought to be one of the best Canadian films ever made, won the Golden Bear First Prize at the Berlin Film Festival and numerous other awards including an Academy Award nomination for best script. Ted has also directed FUN WITH DICK AND JANE, starring Jane Fonda and George Segal; SOMEONE IS KILLING THE GREAT CHEFS OF EUROPE, starring Jacqueline Bisset and George Segal; NORTH DALLAS FORTY which he also wrote and starring Nick Nolte; FIRST BLOOD, starring Sylvester Stallone (one of the biggest box office winners of all time); UNCOMMON VALOR, starring Gene Hackman; and WEEKEND AT BERNIE'S. In the mid-1980's, Ted Kotcheff made a film of another Mordecai Richler novel, JOSHUA THEN AND NOW.