Newsfront (1978)
Two brothers working as news cameramen for competing companies in '50s Australia find their lives dramatically affected by the constantly changing times in which they live.
演员阵容
- 比尔·亨特 — Len Maguire
- Wendy Hughes — Amy Mackenzie
- 杰拉德·肯尼迪 — Frank Maguire
- Chris Haywood — Chris Hewitt
- John Ewart — Charlie
- Don Crosby — A.G. Marwood
- Angela Punch McGregor — Fay
- John Clayton — Cliff
- John Dease — Ken
- 布莱恩·布朗 — Geoff
- Lorna Lesley — Ellie
- Mark Holden — Len's New Assistant
趣闻
- 票房：AU$157.6万
- 获奖：7 · 提名：12. 包括：澳洲電影及電視美藝學院獎最佳電影; 澳洲電影學院獎最佳女配角; 澳洲电影及电视美艺学院奖最佳男主角; 澳洲電影及電視美藝學院獎最佳服裝設計
Newsfront is a 1978 Australian drama film directed by Phillip Noyce, and starring Bill Hunter, Wendy Hughes, Chris Haywood and Bryan Brown. The screenplay is written by David Elfick, Bob Ellis, Philippe Mora, and Noyce. The original music score is composed by William Motzing. Shot on location in Sydney, Australia, the film is shot in black and white, and colour, incorporating actual newsreel footage.
Production
Phil Noyce showed a copy of his short film Castor and Pollux to David Elfick, a magazine publisher who had made a number of successful surf movies. Elfick, along with Mike Molloy and Philippe Mora, had been discussing making a film about newsreel cameramen of the 1940s and 1950s who worked for such companies as Movietone and Cinesound Productions.
Elfick hired Bob Ellis to write the screenplay because he admired The Legend of King O'Malley, a play Ellis co-wrote with Michael Boddy. Ellis says he wrote the first draft with Howard Rubie, who had been a cameraman for Cinesound and thought he was going to direct the film. Anne Brooksbank later contributed to the script. Noyce was hired as director and worked with Ellis. Ellis fell out with Noyce and demanded his name be taken off the credits.
There was some nonsense about how long it was; we'd set it out, one short scene per page and it finally came out about 300 pages or so but, in fact, it was maybe two and a quarter hours long, which wasn't too bad then or now for something that covered 10 years. But a legend started about how huge it was. When I saw it, I was appalled. I could only see what was missing and abruptly took my name off it.
Funding was provided by the Australian Film Commission and the New South Wales Film Corporation.
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