This article is about the Australian film. For the Yugoslav film, see Journalist (1979 film). For the Malayalam film, see Journalist (1993 film).
The Journalist is a 1979 Australian sex comedy about the romantic adventures of a journalist (Jack Thompson). It has the reputation as one of the worst Australian films of all time.[3]
Money came from Roadshow, who wanted Jack Thompson to play the lead, and the New South Wales Film Corporation. The shoot started January 1979 and went for four weeks.[3]
Receptionedit
The film was very poorly received critically and commercially. Thornhill:
The Journalist was a misfire completely and I think it was my fault entirely. We should never have had Jack Thompson. He was just miscast. He's not a comedian. He's a serious, solid actor. We should have had Sam Neill in the lead role and you would have had a debonair roue - it was meant to be a debonair roue. It was meant to be a piece of fluff, a piece of effervescent fluff that came out feeling like lard.[4]
Robert Macklin wrote a novelisation of the script for $5,000.[5]
Referencesedit
^Keith Connor, "The Journalist", Australian Film 1978-92, Oxford Uni Press 1993 p34
^"Australian Films at the Australian Box Office", Film Victoria 9 February 2014 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 24 October 2012
^ abDavid Stratton, The Last New Wave, Angus and Robertson, 1979 p 92-95
^Interview with Michael Thornhill, Signist, 2 November 1998. Retrieved 14 October 2012
^"Damned if you win, damned if you don't". The Canberra Times. Vol. 71, no. 22, 080. Australian Capital Territory, Australia. 30 September 1995. p. 44. Retrieved 3 September 2018 – via National Library of Australia.
External linksedit
The Journalist is available for free viewing and download at the Internet Archive
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