Blue Fire Lady

Blue Fire Lady (1977)

When you're young, when you're free...when you've still got time to believe.

Jenny Grey a horse loving country girl leaves her widowed father to move to the city after her father's frustrations towards Jenny and her desires to ride horses, after her mother had died from a horse-riding accident. Jenny finds work at a country race track and becomes obsessed with a troublesome horse called "Blue Fire Lady". "Blue Fire Lady" shows promise in Jenny's hands, but around everyone else misbehaves and shows no discipline. When "Blue Fire Lady" is put up for auction it is up to Jenny to either buy her or prove her.

Date of release
1977-12-09
TMDB
6.8 / 10 (4)
Runtime
1h 36m
Genres
Family, Drama
Director
Ross Dimsey

Casting

Interesting facts

Blue Fire Lady is a 1977 Australian film directed by Ross Dimsey and starring Cathryn Harrison and Mark Holden. It was a rare children's film from producer Antony I. Ginnane who was better known for his horror and sex films.

Production

Bob Maumill brought the script to Antony I. Ginnane who decided to make it. Ross Dimsey, who had written some sex films for Ginnane and had directed children in television commercials, was hired as director.

The film was funded entirely by private sources, coming from Filmways, the Nine network, Channel Seven in Perth and some private investors. Shooting took place in and around Melbourne over five weeks in August and September 1977 with race scene shot at Caulfied.

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