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Hated... Desperate... Brutalised... ...They can't stop now!

Filmed in the Clare Valley, Gladstone and the Flinders Ranges in South Australia, this prison movie was inspired by the true life prison riot at Bathurst Jail in 1974 and its subsequent Royal Commission into New South Wales Prisons.

1h 37m1980TMDb 6.6

ThrillerActionDramaCrime

English

Crew and Cast

Stephen WallaceDirectorBryan BrownBryan BrownChina JacksonMax PhippsMax PhippsNortonDennis MillerDennis MillerRedfordGary WaddellGary WaddellDave
Phil MotherwellAlby
Michael GowAndrew
Edward RobshawPartidge
Tex MortonThe Govenor (as Robert 'Tex' Morton)Ray MarshallRay MarshallChalmersSyd HeylenSyd HeylenOld BobPaul SonkkilaPaul SonkkilaMcIntosh
Robert NobleRiley

Storyline

Filmed in the Clare Valley, Gladstone and the Flinders Ranges in South Australia, this prison movie was inspired by the true life prison riot at Bathurst Jail in 1974 and its subsequent Royal Commission into New South Wales Prisons.

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Info

Status
Released
Released
11 May 1980
Runtime
1h 37m
TMDB score
6.6 / 10 (20 votes)

Production

Director
Stephen Wallace
Writers
Bob Jewson
Studios
Smiley Productions, New South Wales Film Corp.
Countries
Australia

Box Office

Budget
$420,000.0

Languages

Original
English
Spoken
English