A Dangerous Summer

A Dangerous Summer (1982)

A Murderer... A Captive Woman ...and a Deranged Arsonist ...in a Deadly Inferno!

Building is Howard's passion, and he is so absorbed in his plans to build an elaborate resort in the Blue Mountains of Australia that he ignores certain obvious signals that his business partner is not entirely on the up-and-up. After a brush fire destroys the resort, an insurance investigator comes nosing around, whom Howard's partner deals with in a drastic manner. By the time Lloyds of London's senior investigator George Engels (James Mason in one of his last roles) arrives on the scene, Howard (Tom Skerritt) is anxious to set things to rights.

Date of release
1982-10-22
TMDB
4.1 / 10 (7)
Runtime
1h 40m
Genres
Drama, Thriller
Director
Quentin Masters

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Box office: A$33K

A Dangerous Summer is a 1982 Australian crime film drama film directed by Quentin Masters and starring Tom Skerritt, Ian Gilmour, Guy Doleman and James Mason.

Production

The film was inspired by the Sydney bush fires of the 1979-80 summer. John Seale shot footage of the fire which Brian Trenchard-Smith turned into a 25-minute film, That Dangerous Summer. It was then announced this material would be used by Trenchard Smith in a feature version of the story, to be called Bushfire. In the end, Trenchard-Smith did not direct, and Quentin Masters did with the film being produced by Peter Fox.

The film was originally budgeted at $2.3 million.

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