Bullseye

Bullseye (1987)

Two outlaws. 1000 head of cattle. Australia's harsh dead centre.

In the 1860s, two friends, Harry and Bluey, steal a thousand head of cattle and trek it across country from Queensland to Adelaide.

Date of release
1987-06-01
TMDB
9.0 / 10 (1)
Runtime
1h 33m
Genres
Adventure, Western
Director
Carl Schultz

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Box office: A$2.8K
  • Awards: 0 · Nominations: 3

Bullseye is an Australian comedy adventure film directed by Carl Schultz.

Production

Robert Wales' script was originally called Trailblazer. It was based on the cattle drive of Harry Readford, which inspired the novel Robbery Under Arms. PBL Productions, then an offshoot of the Nine Network, bought the script and at one stage Joan Long was going to produce with Peter Yeldham working on the script. Then Carl Schultz was hired as director and he wanted to turn it into a comedy, so Yeldham left the project.

Carl Schultz told an American journalist "it's the equivalent of your American western but with no blood. It's lots of fun." Schultz said an Australian jury found Harry Readford not guilty because "Australian's like the underdog." He added, "I'm taking a chance with this."

The two leads were inexperienced: Kathryn Walker was an architecture student doing some modelling who had only done school plays; Paul Goddard had only been in one small role. Schultz wanted these characters to play the action seriously while everyone else was larger than life.

Filming took place under the title Birdsville. The movie was shot on location in the Australian outback, with the town of Bourke, New South Wales standing in for Roma, and studio scenes shot at Mort Bay studios in Balmain, Sydney. Colonial era Adelaide was recreated in the Rocks, Sydney. Shooting finished on 14 November 1985.

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