Let the Balloon Go | |
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Directed by | Oliver Howes |
Produced by | Richard Mason; Hal and Jim McElroy, associate producers |
Written by |
Cliff Green Oliver Howes Richard Mason |
Based on | novel by Ivan Southall |
Starring | Robert Bettles Janet Kingsbury John Ewart |
Music by | George Dreyfus |
Cinematography | Dean Semler |
Edited by | Max Lemon |
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Distributed by | 20th Century-Fox |
Release date
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16 December 1976 |
Running time
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92 mins |
Country | Australia |
Language | English |
Budget | AU$400,000 |
Let the Balloon Go is a 1976 Australian children's film about a young boy with polio in 1917.
In 1917 rural New South Wales, a young boy with polio struggles to break free of his overprotective mother.
The film was shot near the town of Carcoar.
The film sold widely overseas including to the United States.