Filmed in the Clare Valley, Gladstone and the Flinders Ranges in South Australia, this prison movie was inspired by the true life prison riot at Bathurst Jail in 1974 and its subsequent Royal Commission into New South Wales Prisons.
Acting
Bryan Brown's simmering intensity before he became Australia's biggest star
Direction
Stephen Wallace's documentary-realist approach to the riot sequences
Practical Effects
Shot in actual decommissioned prisons with real former inmates as extras
Director
Stephen Wallace
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The Bathurst riot sparked Australia's largest prison inquiry; this film was made before the Commission even finished, making it essentially contemporary investigative cinema.
Director Stephen Wallace smuggled cameras into actual prisons and used real former inmates — the government tried to shut down production multiple times.
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