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Stone - 2-DVD Set (DVD) (*)

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Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )

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

Running Time:
95 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.78:1)

Special Features:
2-DVD Set
Interactive Menu
Making Of
Photo Gallery
Scene Access
Special Edition
Trailer(s)

Movie filmed in 1974 and produced in:
Australia ( Australia, New Zealand )

Directed By:
Sandy Harbutt

Written By:
Sandy Harbutt
Michael Robinson

Actors:
Ken Shorter ..... Stone
Sandy Harbutt ..... Undertaker
Deryck Barnes ..... Dr. Townes
Hugh Keays-Byrne ..... Toad
Roger Ward ..... Hooks
Vincent Gil ..... Dr. Death
Dewey Hungerford ..... Septic
James Bowles ..... Stinkfinger (as James H. Bowles)
Bindi Williams ..... Capt. Midnight
John Ifkovitch ..... Zonk
Lex Mitchell ..... Ballini
Rhod Walker ..... Chairman
Owen Weingott ..... Adler
Slim DeGrey ..... Hannigan
Ray Bennett ..... Larsen

Synopsis:

An Australian Easy Rider, Stone is a wild combination of biker movie, gore flick, whodunit, action film and remains the best known cult exploitation film of the 70s. Writer, producer and director Sandy Harbutt also stars, giving a ferocious performance as the Grave Diggers' leader, The Undertaker, alongside Hugh Keays- Byrne, who played the chief villain Toecutter in that other classic Aussie road movie, Mad Max. Ken Shorter as the eponymous Stone is brilliant, while a 19 year-old Rebecca Gilling (Return to Eden) cuts a striking figure as the biker's mole. The soundtrack is a masterpiece of Australian progressive and pub rock.

In 1860's lower Manhattan, the Five Points section is a dark, teeming corner of the city known for vice and chaos. Into this frontier of lawlessness arrives the young Irish American, Amsterdam Vallon. Amsterdam is the orphaned son of the slain Priest Vallon - once chief warrior of the Dead Rabbits gang that rallied the Irish immigrants of the Five Points. After 16 years in a 'House of Refuge,' Amsterdam has returned to the Five Points to hunt down his father's killer. His target is William Cutting (aka 'Bill the Butcher') who has since become the merciless new leader of the neighborhood and detests the newly arrived immigrants. Each year, on the anniversary of Priest Vallon's death, the victory is commemorated with a celebration - with invitations handed out by way of the Butcher himself. Amsterdam's plan is clear: to lie in wait and slay his father's killer. While waiting for that night, Amsterdam works his way deep into the Butcher's inner circle, a world of alternating honor and cruelty from which he can only hope to escape. But the closer he gets to Bill, the more he falls under his spell and becomes conflicted - playing the role of the man's surrogate son while keeping the true secret of his past in the shadows. At the same time, Amsterdam meets Jenny Everdeane, an enigmatic pickpocket whose fierce independence fascinates him. When details of her closely linked past with Bill the Butcher emerge, the relationship between the three intensifies. Amsterdam's fight for family honor, freedom and the woman he loves ultimately collides with a pivotal moment in New York and American history: the 1863 Civil War Draft Riots. This uprising, fueled by new Americans like Amsterdam, will have repercussions that will spread through the Five Points to the halls of Government and beyond, and reveal a tenacious spirit in the city that endures.

Members of the Grave Diggers Motorcycle Club are being knocked off one by one, and someone needs to find out why! Sandy Harbutt's timeless Australian cult film about a bunch of renegades riding Kawasaki 900s.

This product was added to our catalog on Friday 15 August, 2008.