23 December 1977 Drama 107 mins
A powerful drama relating the intimate aspect of teenage boys and their priest/educators behind the walls of a religious institution where rigid discipline backfires natural feelings are deemed unnatural acts and human lives are controlled in the names of good intentions.
Watch the official The Devil's Playground 1977 trailer in HD below or find more The Devil's Playground videos on Vidimovie.
Arthur Dignam as Brother Francine
Nick Tate as Brother Victor
Simon Burke as Tom Allen
Charles McCallum as Brother Sebastian
John Frawley as Brother Celian
John Diedrich as Fitz
Alan Cinis as Waite
Rowan Currie as Casey
Gary Pixton as Tomkin
Michael David as Turner
Warren Coleman as Westaway
Marc Gough as Brown
Andrew Court as Woolmore
Brett Murphy as Tierman
Wayne Comley as Mahoney
Peter Cox as Brother James
Fred Schepisi Director
Fred Schepisi Writer
Fred Schepisi Producer
Bruce Smeaton Music
Ian Baker Director of Photography
Brian Kavanagh Editor
Roger Cowland Visual Effects
Edward McQueen-Mason Sound Editor
Peter Fenton Sound Mixer
Don Connolly Sound Recordist
Anne Popischil Makeup Artist
Spielplatz des Teufels Trailer
Australia 12 August 1976
Canada 21 October 1976
Germany 19 June 1987
Ireland 23 December 1977
Japan 11 October 2006
Portugal 18 August 1999
United States 01 October 1979
If you liked the The Devil's Playground trailer, you may like these ones:
22 June 2022
The life story of Elvis Presley as seen through the complicated relationship with his enigmatic manager, Colonel Tom Parker.
23 December 1992
Charlie Simms is a student at a private preparatory school who comes from a poor family. To earn the money for his flight home to Gresham, Oregon for Christmas, Charlie takes a job over Thanksgiving looking after retired U.
04 October 1997
Waris Hussein’s acclaimed drama is based on the autobiography of Firdaus Kanga, who stars in the lead role of Brit, a young man born with brittle bone disease, which causes him to have never grown beyond four feet tall.
06 August 1999
In the small town of Rockwell, Maine in October 1957, a giant metal machine befriends a nine-year-old boy and ultimately finds its humanity by unselfishly saving people from their own fears and prejudices.
24 September 1993
The adventures of a group of Texas teens on their last day of school in 1976, centering on student Randall Floyd, who moves easily among stoners, jocks and geeks.
02 February 1996
In 1960, a hardy group of prep school students boards an old-fashioned sailing ship. With Capt. Christopher Sheldon at the helm, the oceangoing voyage is intended to teach the boys fortitude and discipline.
25 December 1993
C.S. Lewis, a world-renowned writer and professor, leads a passionless life until he meets spirited poet Joy Gresham.
14 May 1993
When a promised job for Texan Michael fails to materialize in Wyoming, Mike is mistaken by Wayne to be the hitman he hired to kill his unfaithful wife, Suzanne.
12 May 2005
The life of Danny Wright, a salesman forever on the road, veers into dangerous and surreal territory when he wanders into a Mexican bar and meets a mysterious stranger, Julian, who's very likely a hit man.
08 June 2018
A man and a woman meet in the ruins of post-war Poland. With vastly different backgrounds and temperaments, they are fatally mismatched and yet drawn to each other.
22 September 2003
A family of Irish immigrants adjusts to life on the mean streets of Hell's Kitchen while also grieving the death of a child.
14 September 1979
Based on the 1973 rock opera album of the same name by The Who, this is the story of 60s teenager Jimmy.
These some of the most viewed trailers for movies released in 1977:
01 January 1977
Memory Surfaces and Mental Prayers is a collection of works that address the desire to transcend the perceptual and cognitive structures of experience.
12 December 1977
Avant-garde appeal on behalf of and made by the adventurous leftist London cinema, The Other Cinema, using the facilities provided by the BBC community programme unit.
07 February 1977
Lina, who works as a servant, is saving money with his boyfriend Daniel, who is fireman, in order to get married.
26 December 1977
1929: Marie Lehning, a farm worker from Warmsdorf on the Baltic Sea, falls in love with the fisherman's son Mingo.
20 May 1977
A small town in Italy is about to celebrate their patron saint. The city is full of people with different problems.
10 January 1977
A low rank journalist at Tribuna Sera newspaper receives a letter one day. His correspondence contains a serial killer's letters, which he exploits.
01 May 1977
A young man has an eventful summer after graduating high school.
10 October 1977
After Poland won freedom from of its long overlordship by Russia and the Austro-Hungarian Empire in 1918, it took a further four years for its National Assembly to elect Gabriel Narutowicz as its first president.
Have you watched The Devil's Playground yet? What did you think about it?
Artwork, screen shots, trailers and other imagery is © 1977 Australian Film Commission, The Film House.