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Dead Easy
Directed byNigel Buesst
Written byNigel Buesst
Produced byNigel Buesst
StarringPeter Carmody
CinematographyVince Monton
Release date
June 1970
Running time
53 mins
CountryAustralia
LanguageEnglish

Dead Easy is a 1970 Australian film.

Plot

A student of criminology is completing a thesis on Melbourne mass murderers. With the aid of a German professor he visits the scenes of the crimes of Frederick Deeming, Norman List, Arnold Sodeman and Edward Leonski and reconstructs them. One day the students visits the professor and sees him attacked by two strangers. The professor knifes one of the men.

Cast

  • Peter Carmody as the student
  • Kurt Beimelas the professor
  • Anna Raknes as the girlfriend
  • Peter Cummins as the stranger
  • David Car as a stranger
  • Martin Phelan as cameraman
  • Brian Davies as friend
  • Bruce Spence as friend
  • Shirley Carr
  • Alan Finney

Production

The film was shot in January 1970 in and around Melbourne. It received a limited release.[1]

References

  1. ^ Andrew Pike and Ross Cooper, Australian Film 1900–1977: A Guide to Feature Film Production, Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1998 p250