Stone (1974)

User Rating:

6.4/10   

Director:

Sandy Harbutt

Writers:

Sandy Harbutt (writer)
Michael Robinson (writer)

Release Date:

28 June 1974 (Australia)

Genre:

Action | Drama | Adventure | Crime | Mystery

Tagline:

Get with Stone.

Plot:

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.

Plot Keywords:

Motorcycle | Blood | Female Frontal Nudity | Political | Gang War

Cast

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

Runtime:

103 min

Country:

Australia

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

New Zealand:(Banned) (1975) | New Zealand:R18 (re-rating) | Finland:(Banned) (1985) | UK:18 | Australia:R | Norway:18

Filming Locations:

Art Gallery, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Company:

Hedon Productions

Trivia:

Ken Shorter designed his own clothes.

Quotes:

[at the funeral of Go Down]
Undertaker: OK, Go Down, you got it; but believe me, whoever got you is goin' ta get got too; and that's a promise.

Movie Connections:

Featured in Not Quite Hollywood: The Wild, Untold Story of Ozploitation! (2008)

Soundtrack:

Rage

Great movie, but you probably haven't seen it all.

I'd just like to add that the version of this movie shown on TV and available on VHS and DVD is cut, the original movie was about 20 minutes longer but was cut for it's American release and was only ever shown in full during it's original 1974 release at Australian theater's. Seeing the full original version ties in some of the loose ends, but as far as I know the full version has never been released for commercial sale, though it was available for purchase at the 25'th anniversary Stone run in Sydney back in 1999, which I attended. The actual Kawasaki Z900's featured in the movie were offered for sale at theater's during the original 1974 release, when I saw the movie at the local drive-in back then there were three of them on display in the refreshment kiosk being offered for sale.