Deadline (1982 film)

Deadline
Directed by Arch Nicholson
Produced by Hal McElroy
Written by Walter Davis
Starring Barry Newman
Bill Kerr
Trisha Noble
Alwyn Kurts
Bruce Spence
Production
company
Distributed by Nine Network
Release date
 June 2, 1982
Running time
 94 minutes
Country Australia
United States
Language English
Budget A$750,000[1]

Deadline (stylized as ..Deadline..) is a 1982 Australian-American made-for-television thriller drama film directed by Arch Nicholson and co-produced by Hanna-Barbera Australia and New South Wales Film Corporation.

Plot

Journalist Barney Duncan (Barry Newman) discovers that an earthquake on the Australian outback was found to be a small nuclear detonation, and the work of an extortionist who vowed to detonate more devices unless his conditions for blackmail are met.

Production

It was originally known as Shadow Effects and was shot on location in Sydney, Canberra and the mining town of Broken Hill. It was a pilot for an unmade TV series.[2]

References

  1. ↑ "Production Survey", Cinema Papers, May–June 1981 p170
  2. ↑ Ed. Scott Murray, Australia on the Small Screen 1970-1995, Oxford Uni Press, 1996 p39-40
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