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Bert Deling
Bert Deling is an Australian writer, script editor and director of film and TV best known for the cult classic ''Pure Shit'' (1975). Select Credits *'' Dalmas'' (1973) *''Pure Shit ''Pure Shit'' (censored as ''Pure S'') is a 1975 Australian drama film directed by Bert Deling.Beryl Donaldson & John Langer, "Bert Deling", ''Cinema Papers'', April 1977 p 316-319, 377 When the film premiered at Melbourne’s Playbox in May 19 ...'' (1975) *'' Dead Easy'' (1982) *'' Keiron: The First Voyager'' (1985) References External links *Bert Delingat AustLit Australian film directors Living people Year of birth missing (living people) {{Australia-film-director-stub ...
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Pure Shit
''Pure Shit'' (censored as ''Pure S'') is a 1975 Australian drama film directed by Bert Deling.Beryl Donaldson & John Langer, "Bert Deling", ''Cinema Papers'', April 1977 p 316-319, 377 When the film premiered at Melbourne’s Playbox in May 1976, the Vice Squad raided the theatre. It was initially banned, then given an R certificate, and the title was changed from ''Pure Shit'' to ''Pure S''. The low-budget film provoked a hostile reaction from the mainstream media on its initial release. It is now considered an "underground" classic. Plot summary A young woman dies of a heroin overdose. Four junkies who knew her commandeer her car and spend 24 hours searching the streets of Melbourne for good quality heroin, and excitement. Cast *Gary Waddell as Lou *Ann Hetherington as Sandy *Carol Porter as Gerry *John Laurie as John *Max Gillies as Dr Wolf *Tim Robertson as TV interviewer * Helen Garner as Jo *Phil Motherwell *Russell Kirby as Shoplifter / TV Interviewee * Greig Pickha ...
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Dalmas (film)
''Dalmas'' is a 1973 Australian film directed by Bert Deling. One critic wrote that "with Dave Jones’ ''Yackety Yack'' he filmconstitutes the clearest presence of Godard in Australian cinema." Plot An ex-cop, Pete Dalmas, is pursuing a drug runner Mr Big. He visits another ex-cop, Rojack, who has become a drug addict. Rojack gives him a lead to a drug dealer called the Plastic Man. He follows the Plastic Man to a seaside camp and the film turns into a film about the making of the film, with the director and actors discussing filmmaking and drugs. Cast *Peter Whittle as Dalmas *Peter Cummins as Plastic Man *Max Gillies as Rojack *John Duigan as film director *Roger Ward as policeman *Tribe Production The film was shot over four years. Half the budget was provided by the Experimental Film and Television Fund. Many people who worked on it were associated with the Pram Factory Theatre in Melbourne.
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Dead Easy (1982 Film)
''Dead Easy'' is a 1982 Australian action film directed by Bert Deling and starring Scott Burgess and Rosemary Paul. Plot In Kings Cross, Sydney, three friends end up being hunted by every thug and killer when they incur the wrath of a mob boss after they break into the entertainment business.David Stratton, ''The Avocado Plantation: Boom and Bust in the Australian Film Industry'', Pan MacMillan, 1990 p. 252Scott Murray, ''Australia on the Small Screen 1970–1995'', Oxford Uni Press, 1996 p. 38 Cast * Scott Burgess as George *Rosemary Paul as Alex *Tim McKenzie as Armstrong * Max Phipps as Francis *Tony Barry Tony Barry (28 August 1941 – 21 December 2022) was an Australian actor and activist best known for his television and film roles. Personal life Barry was born in Ipswich, Queensland, on 28 August 1941. He had one son. Barry was an environme ... as Ozzie *Jack O'Leary as Morry *Joe Martin as Sol *Barney Combes as Jack References External links *''Dead Easy''at ...
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The First Voyager
''The'' () is a grammatical article in English, denoting persons or things that are already or about to be mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the most frequently used word in the English language; studies and analyses of texts have found it to account for seven percent of all printed English-language words. It is derived from gendered articles in Old English which combined in Middle English and now has a single form used with nouns of any gender. The word can be used with both singular and plural nouns, and with a noun that starts with any letter. This is different from many other languages, which have different forms of the definite article for different genders or numbers. Pronunciation In most dialects, "the" is pronounced as (with the voiced dental fricative followed by a schwa) when followed by a consonant sound, and as (homophone of the archaic pron ...
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AustLit
AustLit: The Australian Literature Resource (also known as AustLit: Australian Literature Gateway; and AustLit: The Resource for Australian Literature), usually referred to simply as AustLit, is an internet-based, non-profit collaboration between researchers and librarians from Australian universities, led by the University of Queensland (UQ), designed to comprehensively record the history of Australian literary and story-making cultures. AustLit is an encyclopaedia of Australian writers and writing. BlackWords is a landmark research project by and within AustLit that details the lives and work of Indigenous Australian authors, which includes Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander writers and storytellers. History AustLit was founded in 2000, when several independent databases on a variety of themes related to literary studies was created from work done by research groups at eight universities. The first dataset comprised about 300,000 fairly simple biographical and ...
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