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14 April 1983 (Australia)
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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
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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
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(Cast overview, first billed only) | 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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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.
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Featured in Cinema of Unease: A Personal Journey by Sam Neill (1995)
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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.