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The Pudding Thieves
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Wikipedia article
'Pudding Thieves' is a 1967 Australian film. It was the first movie from the "Carlton school".Andrew Pike and Ross Cooper, 'Australian Film 19001977: A Guide to Feature Film Production', Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1998 p239[http://www.latrobe.edu.au/screeningthepast/23/carlton-australian-revival.html Bruce Hodson, 'The Carlton Ripple and the Australian Film Revival', 'Screening the Past' 2008] accessed 4 Sept 2012
Plot
Bill and George work as photographers, with a sideline in pornography. Bill's girlfriend discovers this and leaves him in disgust. Bill betrays George to the police.
Cast
*Bernice Murphy as Pete
*Bill Morgan as Bill
*George Tibbits as George
*Tina Date as George's girl
*Burt Cooper as Pimp
*Dorothy Bradley as religious woman
*George Dixon as Bill's friend
*David Kendall as rival pornographer
*Julien Pringle as photographer
*Bert Deling as pimp
*Mandy Boyd as advertising girl
*Nick Yardley
*Chris Maudson
*Peter Nicholls as the buyer
*Sue Ingleton as model
*Pat Black as model
*Penny Brown as model
Production
The film was shot from 1963 to 1967 on borrowed 16 mm film equipment. It was largely funded by director Brian Davies who was a director at La Mama Theatre. The script evolved during production and three separate endings were shot.
Reception
The film was not widely seen but was influential as many people associated with La Mama became key players in the Australian film revival of the 1970s.David Stratton, 'The Last New Wave: The Australian Film Revival', Angus & Robertson, 1980 p275
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