Backroads (film)
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| Directed by | Phillip Noyce |
| Produced by | Phillip Noyce |
| Written by | John Emery Phillip Noyce |
| Starring |
Bill Hunter Gary Foley |
| Music by | Robert Murphy |
| Cinematography | Russell Boyd |
| Edited by | David Huggett |
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Production
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Backraods Productions
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| Distributed by | Home Cinema Group |
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Release date
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Running time
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60 minutes |
| Country | Australia |
| Language | English |
| Budget | AU$30,000 |
Backroads is a 1977 Australian film directed by Phillip Noyce. Two strangers – one white (Jack), one black (Gary) – steal a car in western New South Wales and drive around the coast. The original characters came from a story by Adelaide writer John Emery, with whom Noyce had worked on a short film. Australian reviews of the film were mixed, and it opened commercially in only one cinema.
Jack and Gary steal a car and head off around the back roads of Western New South Wales. They pickup a trio of fellow travellers - Gary's uncle Joe, a French hitchhiker and an embittered woman. Joe drunkenly shoots a stranger and they are chased by police. The police arrest Joe and Jack and shoot Gary.
John Emery had written once of Noyce's short films at film school, Caravan Park and pitched him another story, The First Day of Spring about a young aboriginal. They developed the script together.
The film was shot on location near Bourke and Brewarrina in western New South Wales and was funded in part by a $25,000 grant from the Creative Development Branch of the Australian Film Commission. Shooting finished in April 1977.
The film received mixed reviews in Australia but achieved a better response overseas.
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