Sunday Too Far Away

Sunday Too Far Away (1975)

Friday night he's too tired; Saturday night too drunk; Sunday, too far away.

The harsh, competitive world of Australian sheep-shearers provides the setting for this powerful film. Foley and 'Black Arthur' do battle for the position of 'top shearer' amid the boozy world of men isolated from civilisation. After weeks of work they are confronted with non-union labour undercutting them - a situation which leads to a violent conclusion.

Date of release
1975-06-01
TMDB
6.5 / 10 (20)
Runtime
1h 33m
Genres
Drama
Director
Ken Hannam

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Box office: A$1.4M
  • Filmed in: Australia

Sunday Too Far Away is a 1975 Australian drama film directed by Ken Hannam. It belongs to the Australian Film Renaissance or the Australian New Wave, which occurred during that decade.

Production

The film was the first feature produced by the South Australian Film Corporation. They wanted to make a film about the Gallipoli campaign and considered a co-production with Crawford Productions. John Dingwall was signed to write it. However the film fell through when Crawfords fell out with the SAFC. Dingwall, still under contract to them, proposed instead a treatment called Shearers, based on his brother-in-law, who was a shearer.

Among the investors in the movie were the Australian Film Development Corporation.

Shooting began in May 1974 and took place near Port Augusta and Quorn in South Australia. It encountered rains and flood and was completed behind schedule in May.

The original cut of the film was over two hours. A number of scenes were reduced during post production, including the removal of Foley's romance with the grazier's daughter, and shifting Foley having a car crash from the end of the movie to the beginning. This caused a great deal of conflict between Ken Hannam, Gil Brearley and Matt Carroll.

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