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Andrew Brown (writer)
Howard Willis (novel)
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Release Date:
14 April 1983 (Australia) more
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In 1941 Stan Graham ran amok with his guns and murdered 7 men....Sparking off one of the most bizarre manhunt's in history. The tragedy is that it really happened"....Jack Thompson
Plot:
During World War 2, a farmer in New Zealand murders seven people, and the police, along with local Maori trackers, hunt him in the bush country. | add synopsis
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disturbing study of small town alienation more (6 total)

Cast

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Jack Thompson ... Stan Graham
Carol Burns ... Dorothy Graham
Denis Lill ... Ted Best
Donna Akersten ... Doreen Bond
Martyn Sanderson ... Les North
Marshall Napier ... Trev Bond
Ken Blackburn ... Tommo Robson
John Bach ... Bert Cropp
John Banas ... Macko Hager
John Black ... Greg Hutchison
Karl Bradley ... Maxi Coulson
Greg Naughton ... Anker Madsen
Alan Jervis ... Ralph Frederic
Grant Edgar ... Colin Howatt
Pat Evison ... Dulcie Lindsay
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105 min
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The film was shot in the Kokatahi-Kowhitirangi Valley, where Stanley Graham and his family did actually live and where all the events occurred (shootings, manhunt). There is a memorial to the victims of Stan Graham at the location of his house. The house has been demolished. more
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7 out of 7 people found the following comment useful.
disturbing study of small town alienation, 23 November 1999
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Author: shaun j from auckland, new zealand

Bad Blood is the true story of West Coast (New Zealand) Eric Stanley Graham who, during the 1940's shot dead several people in the small village of Kowhitirangi, and sparked NZ's biggest manhunt in history. The film is both atmospheric and disturbing, and is well focussed on Graham and his family, and their gradual alienation from the small community. The bush setting only amplifies this claustrophobia. Both well acted and scripted, Bad Blood is worth more than a look.

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