Fever (1989 film)
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Plot
Sergeant Jack Wells, a tough country cop, discovers a bag of cash after a shoot out. He decides to keep the money so he and his wife Leanne can start a new life. However Leanne has a lover.
Cast
- Bill Hunter
- Gary Sweet
Production
The movie was the second of three low budget thrillers Craig Lahiff made in succession.[2]
Writer Josephine Emery had made a short feature with Craig Lahiff. She says Lahiff's telemovie Coda sold well at the American Film Market and JC Williamson’s approached Lahiff "with an offer of money to finance a 90-minute thriller, ‘if a suitable script were written’. Craig came to me and I wrote a treatment for a thriller based around desperate people in an ugly mining town who would do almost anything to get out. We called it, Fever. Williamson’s liked it, put the money up, and we were away."[3]
The film was made with the assistance of the South Australian Film and Television Financing Fund.
The film was meant to be shot in Port Pirie but the budget did not stretch to location shooting so it was filmed in Port Adelaide.[4]
Release
The film was never released theatrically in Australia but sold widely around the world on video.[4] It made a comfortable profit.[5]
References
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- ↑ Ed. Scott Murray, Australia on the Small Screen 1970-1995, Oxford Uni Press, 1996 p60
- ↑ Interview with Craig Lahiff, 4 August 1997 Template:Webarchive Retrieved 19 October 2012
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- ↑ Mark Juddery, "Craig Lahiff: under-appreciated and talented Australian filmmaker" Sydney Morning Herald 5 March 2014. Retrieved 11 March 2014
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External links
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- Fever at Oz Movies
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