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Film Details - Associated R & R Films , 1981
Producers:
Pat Lovell and Robert Stigwood.
Production Companies:
Associated R & R Films.
Finance Organisations:
'Producer Pat Lovell secured the film's eventual $2.8 million budget from Greater Union, a consortium of businessmen, and - in a coup that made the film possible - a new company, Associated R & R Films, backed by Rupert Murdoch and Robert Stigwood.'
Source: Shirley, Graham. 'Patricia Lovell'. Australian Screen. http://aso.gov.au/people/Patricia_Lovell/portrait/ Sighted 09/03/12.
Source: Shirley, Graham. 'Patricia Lovell'. Australian Screen. http://aso.gov.au/people/Patricia_Lovell/portrait/ Sighted 09/03/12.
Director of Photography:
Russell Boyd.
Editors:
William M. Anderson.
Production Designers:
Herbert Pinter.
Composer:
Brian May.
Cast:
Including Mel Gibson, Mark Lee, Robert Grubb, Harold Hopkins, Bill Hunter, Bill Kerr, and Charles Yunupingu.
Release Dates:
13 August 1981 (Australia).
Location:
- South Australia except bazaar scenes (Cairo).
Settings:
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Gallipoli,
cTurkey,cMiddle East, Asia,
