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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
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Awards:
1 win & 1 nomination more
User Comments:
White/Buckley/Sharman: a strange success more (4 total)

Cast

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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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Runtime:
90 min
Country:
Australia
Language:
English
Color:
Color
Sound Mix:
Mono
Certification:
Australia:M
Filming Locations:
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Company:
Chariot Films more

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White/Buckley/Sharman: a strange success, 13 July 2006
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Author: ptb-8 from Australia

This very strange and dreamlike film set in a well heeled suburb of Sydney was completely misunderstood and ignored in its first release. Almost a preview of Muriel's disenchanted and socially disenfranchised character in MURIEL'S WEDDING so successfully seen in the 90s film as played by Toni Collette, PROWLER has Kerry Walker almost as some sort of distant Muriel relative upsetting her family status quo with fantasies and playacting an adventurous role that leads her into other worldly behaviour. Written by Patrick White and Directed by Rocky Horror's Jim Sharman and Produced by Tony Buckley of BLISS, this film is a peculiar duck that will divide every audience unless they have a way of getting to like the lead character in the first reel. There has been plenty of films about alienated suburban girls seeking nocturnal and dangerous secret lives (HARD CANDY just released is the new cruel century's most recent example) but PROWLER is a quiet secret and a mood piece patient and film literate viewers will enjoy. Whoever has already seen SWEETIE (as someone else on this site recommends) is quite right leading you to PROWLER's mindset and style. One of Jim Sharman's first films was SHIRLEY THOMPSON VS THE ALIENS, a title mixing suburbia and weirdness immediately.... an so to PROWLER

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