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Wikipedia article




'Gentle Strangers' is a 1972 Australian film directed by Cecil Holmes.

Plot



A Chinese boy and a Thai girl have a romance when they meet in a seedy boarding house in Sydney. An Indonesian student is posted to a rural research centre while his wife and child cope with life in the city.

Cast



*Yee Choo Koo as Preeyan

*Clem Chow as Lawrence

*Rick Lay as himself

*Eric Lay as himself

*Yanti Lay as herself

*Jennifer West as Miss Emerson

*Lyn Murphy as Mrs Baker

Production



Cecil Holmes spent a year researching and writing the film, which was made for Film Australia. It was shot on 16mm with a mostly non professional cast.Andrew Pike and Ross Cooper, 'Australian Film 19001977: A Guide to Feature Film Production', Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1998 p269

Release



The film was released through non commercial film libraries and screened on commercial television but did not screen in cinemas.

References




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