Touch and Go (1980 film)

Touch and Go
Directed by Peter Maxwell
Produced by John Pellatt
Written by Peter Yeldham
Starring Wendy Hughes
Chantal Contouri
Carmen Duncan
Jon English
Jeanie Drynan
Production
company
Distributed by Greater Union
Release date
 12 June 1980
Running time
 93 min.
Country Australia
Language English
Budget A$541,000[1]

Touch and Go is a 1980 Australian heist film directed by Peter Maxwell and starring Wendy Hughes.

Production

The film was the idea of director Peter Maxwell. It was originally intended to be set on Hayman Island but Reg Ansett, who had interests on the island at the time, was not keen on showing a robbery on the island.[2]

It was made with funding from Greater Union, the Queensland Film Corporation and Australian Film Commission.[3][4]

Shooting began in November 1979 with a month's worth of filming at Maroochydore and Noose Heads, and eight weeks of night shooting in Sydney. Scenes set in a Barrier Reef island were shot at a Maroochydore hotel. Its original shooting title was Friday the 13th but this was changed when the horror movie with the same name came out.[1]

Release

The film only ran for three weeks in a cinema in Brisbane.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Paul Harris, "Touch and Go", Australian Film 1978-1992, Oxford Uni Press, p67
  2. ↑ Paul Davies, "Peter Yeldham", Cinema Papers, June–July 1980 p214
  3. ↑ David Stratton, The Avocado Plantation: Boom and Bust in the Australian Film Industry, Pan MacMillan, 1990 p309-310
  4. ↑ "Six women steal the show". The Australian Women's Weekly. 47 (35). 30 January 1980. p. 33. Retrieved 28 January 2017 – via National Library of Australia.
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