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Gone to Ground
Directed byKevin James Dobson
Written byBruce A. Wishart
Produced byRobert Bruning
StarringCharles Tingwell
Eric Oldfield
CinematographyRussell Boyd
Edited byRod Hay
Production
company
Gemini Productions
Distributed byNetwork 7
Release date
1977
Running time
74 mins
CountryAustralia
LanguageEnglish
Budget$90,000[1]

Gone to Ground is a 1977 Australian TV movie about a man pursued by a killer.[2]

It was one of a series of TV movies Bruning made for Channel 7. Although he sold them to Paramount for worldwide distribution, he found making them was not profitable, so sold his company to Reg Grundy.[3]

Plot

Jimmy Flemming, the owner of a surfing supply store has been receiving death threats. After he is beaten up by surfers he "goes to ground" with his wife Angela and the house of an old friend. However they are followed there by a mysterious motorcyclist.

Harry Ferguson is married to Grace but is sleeping with his secretary Kathleen.

Cast

Production

The film was shot in Sydney,[1] including some night scenes at Luna Park.

Reception

The Sydney Morning Herald said that "Eric Oldfield conies off exceptionally well" and the script has "more twists than a corkscrew" but the direction "involves a conglomeration of quick scene changes, flashbacks and slow motion that does nothing more than confuse. So swiftly do the scenes change that dialogue often overlaps into the next frame. It takes about 40 minutes to get some idea of what the film is about."[4]

Another review in the same paper said the script "reduces a taut thriller to a limp farce" where the dialogue was "ineffably silly."[5]

References

  1. ^ a b "First Look for a Thrill". Sydney Morning Herald. 8 August 1976. p. 89.
  2. ^ Ed. Scott Murray, Australia on the Small Screen 1970-1995, Oxford Uni Press, 1996 p69
  3. ^ Beilby, Peter; Murray, Scott (September–October 1979). "Robert Bruning". Cinema Papers. pp. 517–519.
  4. ^ Shelley, Gary (21 May 1979). "More twists than a corkscrew". Sydney Morning Herald. p. 18.
  5. ^ Groves, Don (20 May 1979). "Ground script goes to slush". Sydney Morning Herald.