The chant of the underdog
The true story of a part Aboriginal man who finds the pressure of adapting to white culture intolerable, and as a result snaps in a violent and horrific manner.
- Bleak ending
- Graphic violence
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Grave, bleak, earnest and overwhelming.
- gravecomic
- warmbleak
- earnestironic
- cooloverwhelming
- classical in formformally daring
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Cast
- Tom E. LewisJimmie Blacksmith
- Freddy ReynoldsMort Blacksmith
- Ray BarrettFarrell
- Jack ThompsonRev. Neville
- Don CrosbyJack Newby
- Angela Punch McGregorGilda Marshall
- Steve DoddTabidgi
- Peter CarrollMcCready
- Ruth CracknellMrs. Heather Newby
- Elizabeth AlexanderPetra Graf
Crew
- Fred SchepisiDirector
- Fred SchepisiScreenplay
- Thomas KeneallyNovel
- Ian BakerDirector of Photography
- Bruce SmeatonOriginal Music Composer
- Brian KavanaghEditor
- Fred SchepisiProducer
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