Sunday Too Far Away

Sunday Too Far Away (DVD) (*)

$23.99

Screened, competed or awarded at:
Australian Film Institute
Cannes Film Festival
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )

Product Origin/Format:
Australia ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
86 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.66:1)

Special Features:
Documentary
Interactive Menu
Making Of
Photo Gallery
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 1975 and produced in:
Australia ( Australia, New Zealand )

Directed By:
Ken Hannam

Written By:
Ken Hannam
John Dingwall

Actors:
Jack Thompson ..... Foley
Max Cullen ..... Tim King
Robert Bruning ..... Tom
Jerry Thomas ..... Basher
Peter Cummins ..... Arthur Black
John Ewart ..... Ugly
Sean Scully ..... Beresford
Reg Lye ..... Old Garth
Laurie Rankin ..... Station hand
Lisa Peers ..... Sheila Dawson
Gregory Apps ..... Michael Simpson
Doug Lihou ..... Rousie
Ken Weaver ..... Quinn
Curt Jansen ..... Wentworth
Phyllis Ophel ..... Ivy

Synopsis:

Director Ken Hamman's breakthrough historical drama was the first Australian film of the 1970s to gain international acclaim, paving the way for the Australian New Wave and the success of movies such as The Last Wave and Breaker Morant. Sunday Too Far Away is a story about the struggles of itinerant sheep shearers in the Outback in the 1950s. Jack Thompson won an Australian Best Actor prize for his role as Foley, a hard-drinking, hard-working shearer who is the best at his profession. When local landowners try to drive away the sheep herders, Foley leads a strike to establish their right to exist and live off the land. The dispute turns violent as the landowners retaliate, and Foley struggles to maintain his supremacy. Many scenes were shot in the same shearing barn used in the 1960 British-Australian hit The Sundowners, which was about an Irish sheepherder who emigrates to Australia. The title comes from a traditional song of complaint sung by sheep shearers' wives. The film became a sensation at the Cannes Film Festival.

In 1956, gun shearer Foley joins a new shearing team. He shares a room with Old Garth, a once great shearer who is now a drunk. Foley and his team battle to get in a new cook, Old Garth dies and Foley befriends the grazier's daughter. Foley loses his status as top shearer to Arthur Black and blows most of his money in gambling. The shearers go on strike and Foley and his team get involved in a brawl with non union labour.

Jack Thompson is Foley, the best shearer on every station for miles around. Sunday Too Far Away is Foley's story of sweat-soaked days and rum-soaked nights, of bloody two-fisted punch ups... of scab labour brought in during the shearers strike of '56, and of the poor bastard who runs the place!

This product was added to our catalog on Friday 24 February, 2006.

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