04 October 1985 Drama, Comedy 101 mins
Set in post-war (1949) rural New Zealand, this film traces the efforts of two con men to run a betting scam in a small town (Tainuea) already rife with illegal gambling corruption, and eccentricity.
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Peter Bland as Wes Pennington
Phillip Gordon as Cyril Kidman
Michael Lawrence as Don Jackson
Billy T. James as The Tainuia Kid
Marshall Napier as Sel Bishop
Don Selwyn as Norm Cray
Marise Wipani as Esmerelda
Ian Mune Writer
Ian Mune Director
Dean Parker Writer
Larry Parr Producer
Ken Zemke Editor
Alun Bollinger Director of Photography
New Zealand 04 October 1985
United States 06 October 1985
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01 January 1985
A boy sees his parents gunned by criminals due to unpaid debts. Twenty years later, the boy, Mark Quinn, has become a hard-hitting cop, the kind that hates criminal scum, bending the rules to catch those criminals and drive them to despair.
01 April 1985
The film is about a married man who cheats on his wife. Halil, a father of two, lives a happy life with his wife and children.
04 September 1985
Masked thugs torture an innocent woman in increasingly brutal ways.
14 December 1985
Officer Chan Ka Kui manages to put a major Hong Kong drug dealer behind the bars practically alone, after a shooting and an impressive chase inside a slum.
01 January 1985
Gives a brief overview of the history, geography, distribution of population, the political/social/economic systems, the Catholic Church, the military, and the problems in South America.
01 January 1985
Performance clips and biographical anecdotes from the life of Spalding Gray.
01 November 1985
This television essay from 1985 was written by Leonard Bernstein to commemorate the 125th anniversary of Gustav Mahler's birth.
28 June 1985
Reluctant to let go of college life, a close-knit team of seven friends--irresponsible saxophone player Billy, young Republican Alec, his girlfriend Leslie, struggling journalist Kevin, drama queen Jules, lovesick waiter Kirby, and Wendy, a social worker with a heart of gold--realise the party is over.
22 November 1985
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31 December 1985
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Artwork, screen shots, trailers and other imagery is © 1985 New Zealand National Film Unit, Shaker Run Productions.
