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Film Details - 1985
Producers:
Patricia Edgar (executive producer); Jane Ballantyne (producer).
Production Companies:
Australian Children's Television Foundation.
Music:
Norman Kaye.
Cast:
Lucy Angwin (Riordan Family), Toby Angwin (Riordan Family), Tunji Beier (Larger Newsboy), Julia Blake (Reformed Sinner), Kyra Cox (Riordan Family), Barry Dickins (Beggar), Bob Ellis (Well-dressed Man), Maurie Fields (Mr O'Brien), John Flaus (Communist Speaker), Brad Hudson (Smaller Newsboy), Norman Kaye (Tramp), Tony Llewellyn-Jones (John Riordan), Christopher Schlusser (Joe Riordan), George Trotman (Mr Crabtree), and Linden Wilkinson (Elise Riordan).
Awards:
- Honorable Mention for Live Action, Chicago International Festival of Children's Films, 1986.
Settings:
- 1930s