''Gentle Strangers'' is a 1972 Australian film directed by
Cecil Holmes.
Plot
A Chinese boy and a Thai girl have a romance when they meet in a seedy boarding house in Sydney. An Indonesian student is posted to a rural research centre while his wife and child cope with life in the city.
Cast
*Yee Choo Koo as Preeyan
*Clem Chow as Lawrence
*Rick Lay as himself
*Eric Lay as himself
*Yanti Lay as herself
*Jennifer West as Miss Emerson
*Lyn Murphy as Mrs Baker
Production
Cecil Holmes spent a year researching and writing the film, which was made for
Film Australia
Film Australia was a company established by the Government of Australia to produce films about Australia in 1973. Its predecessors were the Cinema and Photographic Branch (1913–38), the Australian National Film Board (1939–1955, under diff ...
. It was shot on 16mm with a mostly non professional cast.
[Andrew Pike and Ross Cooper, ''Australian Film 1900–1977: A Guide to Feature Film Production'', Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1998 p269]
Release
The film was released through non commercial film libraries and screened on commercial television but did not screen in cinemas.
References
External links
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''Gentle Strangers''at Oz Movies
Australian drama films
1970s English-language films
1970s Australian films
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