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1 July 1971 (USA)
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A boy and girl face the challenge of the world's last frontier. Dangers they had never known before... A people they had never seen before... more
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Two young children are stranded in the Australian outback and are forced to cope on their own. They...
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1 nomination
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Cave 'inspired by Nabokov, Amis, Roeg'
(From digitalspy. 17 September 2009, 5:32 AM, PDT)
Gay Of The Dead 9: Bruce Labruce and Otto; Or, Up With Dead People.
(From Fangoria. 29 March 2009, 11:03 PM, PDT)
(From digitalspy. 17 September 2009, 5:32 AM, PDT)
Gay Of The Dead 9: Bruce Labruce and Otto; Or, Up With Dead People.
(From Fangoria. 29 March 2009, 11:03 PM, PDT)
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Cast
(Complete credited cast) | Jenny Agutter | ... | Girl |
 | Luc Roeg | ... | White Boy (as Lucien John) |
| David Gulpilil | ... | Black Boy (as David Gumpilil) |
| John Meillon | ... | Man |
| Robert McDarra | ... | Man (as Robert McDara) |
| Peter Carver | ... | No Hoper (as Pete Carver) |
| John Illingsworth | ... | Young Man |
| Hilary Bamberger | ... | Woman |
| Barry Donnelly | ... | Australian Scientist |
| Noeline Brown | ... | German Scientist (as Noelene Brown) |
| Carlo Manchini | ... | Italian Scientist |
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100 min | USA:100 min (1997 reissue) | USA:95 min (original version)
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Color (Eastmancolor)
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1.85 : 1 more
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Singapore:NC-16 |
Sweden:11 |
UK:12 (video rating: 2000) |
UK:AA (original rating) |
USA:GP (re-rating on appeal) |
USA:R (original rating) |
West Germany:12
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The poetry quoted by the narrator at the end of the film is Part 40 of A.E. Housman's "A Shropshire Lad": Into my heart an air that kills From yon far country blows: What are those blue remembered hills, What spires, what farms are those? That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, The happy highways where I went And cannot come again.
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Errors in geography: The girl asks to be taken to the city of Adelaide, the children's destination in the novel. However, the city shown at the start and end of the film is clearly Sydney, which is several thousand kilometers (and two states) away from Adelaide.
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Referenced in Watching the Alien (2003) (V)
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Los Angeles
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In the late sixties and early seventies there was an unusual kind of excitement when you went to the movies. It probably had not happened since movies were first invented and has not happened since in commercial theatrical releases. This was the feeling of "I don't know what is going to happen next"! What happened one day was completely unexpected when I first saw the opening of "Walkabout". The introduction gave almost no clue as to what was to come next, but it was visually and aurally fascinating. The rapidity in which the plot shifted gears made you more sympathetic to the plight of our main characters. The sudden appearance of the Aborigine boy in the nick of time and his taking them under his wing. Then surprises of all surprises--our heroine does many nude scenes. Then her final look of yearning at the end suddenly explains it all. All the while Roeg is doing a travelogue of the Australian outback. This movie is pure genius from beginning to end. A must for any movie collection.