David moves to a mining town in northwest Australia. He befriends a veteran worked for the mining company, Foxy, and his wife Vicky. Vicky and David become friends, making Foxy jealous.
Film Australia were inspired to make further drama productions following the success of Three to Go (1970). They originally planned to make two films with common characters and opening scenes about the separate experiences of a father and son – the father would be a tradesman cop gin with unemployment at middle age while the son faces a new job. The film about the father, written by Frank Moorhouse, was abandoned but the other film became Flashpoint.[1]
Filming took place in the mining town of Newman approx 1200 km north of Perth in the Pilbara. Brian Hannant spent several weeks working among mining crews incognito, then developing a script with Frank Hardy and, later, British TV writer Harold Lander.[1]
A subplot was written and shot where David had an affair with kindergarten teacher played by Kirrily Nolan. This was cut to keep the running time down.[1]
Releaseedit
The film was distributed widely through non-commercial libraries in Australia and screened on television in 1973.[1]
Referencesedit
^ abcdAndrew Pike and Ross Cooper, Australian Film 1900–1977: A Guide to Feature Film Production, Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1998 p268
flashpoint, 1972, film, flashpoint, 1972, australian, film, flashpointdirected, bybrian, hannantwritten, bybrian, hannantharold, landerproduced, bygil, brealeystarringserge, lazareffcinematographykerry, brownedited, bywayne, closeproductioncompanyfilm, austral. Flashpoint is a 1972 Australian film FlashpointDirected byBrian HannantWritten byBrian HannantHarold LanderProduced byGil BrealeyStarringSerge LazareffCinematographyKerry BrownEdited byWayne Le CloseProductioncompanyFilm AustraliaRelease date1972 1972 Running time56 minutesCountryAustraliaLanguageEnglish Contents 1 Plot 2 Cast 3 Production 4 Release 5 References 6 External linksPlot editDavid moves to a mining town in northwest Australia He befriends a veteran worked for the mining company Foxy and his wife Vicky Vicky and David become friends making Foxy jealous Cast editSerge Lazareff as David Wyn Roberts as Foxy Jan Kingsbury as Vicky Hu Pryce as Ben Kevin Leslie as Arthur Barry Donnelly as Andy Harry Lawrence as Jimmy Ben Gabriel as mine managerProduction editFilm Australia were inspired to make further drama productions following the success of Three to Go 1970 They originally planned to make two films with common characters and opening scenes about the separate experiences of a father and son the father would be a tradesman cop gin with unemployment at middle age while the son faces a new job The film about the father written by Frank Moorhouse was abandoned but the other film became Flashpoint 1 Filming took place in the mining town of Newman approx 1200 km north of Perth in the Pilbara Brian Hannant spent several weeks working among mining crews incognito then developing a script with Frank Hardy and later British TV writer Harold Lander 1 A subplot was written and shot where David had an affair with kindergarten teacher played by Kirrily Nolan This was cut to keep the running time down 1 Release editThe film was distributed widely through non commercial libraries in Australia and screened on television in 1973 1 References edit a b c d Andrew Pike and Ross Cooper Australian Film 1900 1977 A Guide to Feature Film Production Melbourne Oxford University Press 1998 p268External links editFlashpoint at IMDb nbsp Flashpoint at Oz Movies nbsp This article related to an Australian film of the 1970s is a stub You can help Wikipedia by expanding it vte Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Flashpoint 1972 film amp oldid 1206312968, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
