Director Ken Hannam Producers Gil Brealy, Matt Carrol Photography Geoff Burton Music Arranged Michael Carlos Music Composed Patrick Flynn Film Editor Rod Adamson Original Screenplay John Dingwall Art Director David Copping Prop Master Neil Angwin Continuity Jun Tyrell Make Up Peggy Carter Wardrobe Helen Dyson Stand by Philip Walker Sound Barry Brown Boom Kevin Kearney Sound Editor Greg Bell Sound Mixer Peter Featon Musical Direction Patrick Flynn, Micheal Carlos Assistant Editor Helen Brown Camera Operator Graham Scaife Focus David Williamson Leader Jimmy Allen Gaffer Tony Tegg Best Boy Trevor Towne Key Grip David Fetley Grip Driver Nick Cockram Unit Manager Pamela Van Eck First Assistant Malcolm Smith Second Geoff Simpson Third Mandy Smith Production Accountant Leith Havanagh Production Secretary Jackie Eyre Production Assistant David Kynock Stunt/ Fight arranger Ian Jamieson Showing Adviser Doug Lihou, Laurie Rankin Starring Jack Thompson, Reg Lyle, Max Cullen, Robert Brunning, Peter Cummins, John Ewart, Sean Scully, Greame Smith, Jerry Thomas, Lisa Peters and Gregory Apps.Release Dates.
Release dates vary from publication to publication but most of the relevant literature stems from mid 1975. The first commercial release was the sixteenth of June 1975 in Adelaide. The film had many screenings before itâs commercial release including The Australian Film Awards and the Canneâs Festival. _
Director Ken Hannam uses the eclectic character range of the film to demonstrate the masculinity and mateship of Australian culture in the era. The competitiveness, alchoholism, gambling and distain for the daughter reak ãAussieä maleness and provide a bleak but relative humour to the film. Through out the film speech is kept to a minimum and the feel of the film is replaced by actions such as the scene where Foley and his ãmateä compete in washing clothes while naked. Through similar scenes it seems that Ken Hannam is showing the nessecity and pain of masculine culture through the characters and situations presented.
Though it is not the sort of film I would usually choose to watch the film is watchable and in its own regard enjoyable. The performances were believable and managed to develop depth in characters with little or no background shown. Sunday Too Far Away makes a cultural and political statement without words or malice and has earned a place in Australian film history.
The first place I looked when researching this film was the video case. This provided cast and credit information. Bibliographical details were available through the Film Literature Index and the International Index To Film. More complex Bibliographical details were available on the Film Index International CD ROM. I was unable to find Box office details of any kind for this movie. Details were absent from internet, literature and the Annual Reports CD ROM. I think that this is due in part to the age of the film or the lack of literature of this type from that era. As I have mentioned I was able to find details of Sunday Too Far Away on the world wide web in the Internet Movie Database and The All Movie Guide these sources also provided information on The other works of the people involved. Though lacking in depth the information was present. Critical comments and reviews were readily available due to the role of this movie in Australian film history. Exact release dates were found in ÎAustralian Film 1960 to 1977â(Melbourne 1980) Along with production and release detail.
As you can see this is a well-written movie though most of the relevant interview and reviews are from around about the time of the films release.Relevant articles are as follows. Cinema Papers 1975 March/ April page 61 July/ August page 189, 154 November/ December page 216-219 Revue Du Cinema 1975 September page 125 November page 58-61 Postif 1975 July/ August page 69-70 Variety 1975 May 28 page 19 Cahiers du cinema 1977 August/ September page 44-51 Listener 1976 July page 153 Films illustrated 1976 July page 404-406 Screen International 1976 June page 14 Hollywood reporter 1976 March page 3/4 Australian Cinema, Scott Murray 1994 page 81-83 and various. Australian Film 1960-77, Oxford dui Press 1980 page 363
World Wide Web Literature.
Though I was able to find information on Sunday Too Far Away, the information available was not very in depth. Information was restricted to cast and credits, basic ratings and genre detail. For other movies, details are more in depth. The Internet movie database http://us.imdb.com/cache/title-exact/91469 . The all Movie Guide (AMG) http://kali.murdoch.edu.au/~cntinuum/index1:html .