''The Trespassers'' is a 1976 film directed by John Duigan and starring Judy Morris and

Briony Behets Briony Behets (born 1951, London, United Kingdom) is an English-Australian actress who found fame acting in Australian soap operas of the 1970s and 1980s Early life Behets' father worked as a civil engineer, which took him around the world and ...

Premise

In 1970, political journalist Richard lives with Penny but is having an affair with actress Dee. The two women meet and become friends.

Cast

* Judy Morris as Dee *

as Penny *

John Derum John Bernard Derum (born 9 January 1946) is an Australian stage, film and television actor. He has also directed and produced for theatre companies throughout Australia and for television. Career Theatre Derum walked in on Wal Cherry's ...

as Richard * Hugh Keays-Byrne as Frank *Peter Carmody as Ted *Camilla Nicoll as Jenny *Diana Greentree as Angela * Max Gillies as Publisher * Chris Haywood as Sandy *

Sydney Conabere Sydney Leicester Conabere (8 July 191815 July 2008) was an Australian actor. He was notable for his work in theatre, film and television drama in a career spanning more than fifty years. In 1962 Conabere won the Logie award for Best Actor, for ...

as Harry * John Frawley

Production

$70,000 of the budget came from the

Australian Film Commission The Australian Film Commission (AFC) was an Australian government agency was founded in 1975 with a mandate to promote the creation and distribution of films in Australia as well as to preserve the country's film history. It also had a producti ...

. The film was shot in Melbourne and in south Gippsland in late winter of 1975.Andrew Pike and Ross Cooper, ''Australian Film 1900–1977: A Guide to Feature Film Production'', Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1998, p 304

References

External links

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''The Trespassers''
at Australian Screen Online
''The Trespassers''
at Oz Movies Australian drama films 1976 films Films directed by John Duigan Films scored by Bruce Smeaton 1970s English-language films 1970s Australian films {{1970s-Australia-film-stub