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7.3/10   44 votes
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Director:
Jim Sharman
Writers:
Patrick White (play)
Patrick White (screenplay)
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Release Date:
March 1979 (USA) more
Genre:
Drama | Comedy more
Tagline:
Nobel Prize winning author Patrick White's first film...
Plot:
The Night The Prowler, is about the dark side of suburban middle-class urban culture and family relations... more | add synopsis
Awards:
1 win & 1 nomination more
User Comments:
one of Australia's best 10 more

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)
Ruth Cracknell ... Doris Bannister
John Frawley ... Humphrey Bannister
Kerry Walker ... Felicity Bannister
John Derum ... John
Maggie Kirkpatrick ... Madge Hopkirk

Terry Camilleri ... The Prowler
Harry Neilson ... Old man
Peter Collingwood ... Dr. Herborn
Robbie Ward ... Mrs. Ward
Merv Lillie ... Alcoholic man
Dorothy Hewett ... Alcoholic woman
Robert Baxter ... Detective 1
Paul Chubb ... Policeman 1
John Cobley ... Policeman 2
Ray Bennett ... Sergeant
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Additional Details

Runtime:
90 min
Country:
Australia
Language:
English
Color:
Color
Sound Mix:
Mono
Certification:
Australia:M
Company:
Chariot Films more

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9 out of 12 people found the following comment useful:-
one of Australia's best 10, 8 May 2005
10/10
Author: bonna fide from london

The dialog in this film is incredibly speakable -- in response to Mephisto -- and I think what you are unhappy with is it's camp melodramatic style -- which on a critical level is achieved with sophistication and panache.

Kerry Walker is a stand out as the mannish blossom -- ripening with rebellion and uncertainty -- the perfect counter to her mother played by Ruth Cracknell. Ruth's performance is genius -- the timing for black humour I have only seen seconded by Kathleen TUrner in Serial Mom.

This film is beautifully shot. The camera moves with deft purpose -- never feeling television or obvious -- but a secure mix of voyeurism and arch photographic signposting (appropriate to the camp postmodern genre) Australia (along with Spain, USA and Brazil, NEW ZEALAND-- thanks to ALmodovar, Waters and Jackson) is home of the CAMP aesthetic -- and culturally we've been balking at this over the last few years. But what's really going for us -- is something that uniquely expresses our nation's ironic plight of being a little America.

WALK THE TALK, LOVE SERENADE, SWEETIE are also worthy notables.

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