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Deadline (1982 film)
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Wikipedia article
'Deadline' (stylized as '..Deadline..') is a 1981 Australian-American made-for-television thriller drama film directed by Arch Nicholson and co-produced by the Australian division of Hanna-Barbera and New South Wales Film Corporation.
Plot
Journalist Barney Duncan (Barry Newman) discovers that an earthquake on the Australian outback was found to be a small nuclear detonation, and the work of an extortionist who vowed to detonate more devices unless his conditions for blackmail are met.
Cast
* Barry Newman
* Trisha Noble
* Bruce Spence
* Alwyn Kurts
Production
It was originally known as 'Shadow Effects' and was shot on location in Sydney, Canberra and the mining town of Broken Hill. It was a pilot for an unmade TV series which was to be called 'Foreign Correspondent'.Ed. Scott Murray, 'Australia on the Small Screen 1970-1995', Oxford Uni Press, 1996 p39-40
At one stage Graham Kennedy was going to play a priest.
Production was held up due to protests from Actors Equity.
"I like the concept, it's a contemporary issue," said Newman during filming in December 1980. "I'm a news nut; my favorite actor is Walter Cronkite."
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