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Strange Holiday
Directed byMende Brown
Written byMende Brown
Based onnovel Two Years' Vacation by Jules Verne
Produced byMende Brown
StarringJaeme Hamilton
CinematographyBrendan Brown
Edited byG. Turney-Smith
Music byTommy Tycho
Production
companies
Mass-Brown Pictures
Artransa Park Films
Distributed bySeven Network
Release date
28 August 1970
Running time
90 minutes (includes overnight Seven News Updates/long ad breaks)
CountryAustralia
LanguageEnglish

Strange Holiday is a 1970 Australian television film directed by Mende Brown and starring Jaeme Hamilton.

Plot

Ten boys and a dog are shipwrecked on an island in the Pacific. After a storm they discover another boat has been shipwrecked on the island. They make friends with two of the survivors, a nurse and ship's carpenter, but discover there are three other survivors who are ruthless mutineers. The children manage to outwit the mutineers, the carpenter builds them a boat and they sail home.

Cast

  • Jaeme Hamilton as Briant
  • Mark Healey as Doniphan
  • Jaime Massang as Mocco
  • Van Alexander as Gordon
  • Ross Williams as Jacob
  • Simon Asprey as Iverson
  • Peter Alexander as Garnett
  • Michael Berry as Service
  • Mark Lee as Costar
  • Larry Crane as Wilcox
  • Carmen Duncan as nurse
  • Garry Pankhurst
  • Ben Gabriel
  • Mark Hertson
  • Goff Vockler
  • Tony Allan
  • Don McNiven
  • Nigel Lovell

Production

The film was financed by an American company seeking product for the US TV market and Artransa Film Studios. Shooting began in April 1969 in the Atransa Studios at Sydney and up the coast nearby. Production soon followed on another feature Little Jungle Boy (1970).[1]

Reception

The movie returned a comfortable profit to its investors.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b Andrew Pike and Ross Cooper, Australian Film 1900–1977: A Guide to Feature Film Production, Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1998 p249


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