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Release Date:
January 1, 1982
Original Title:
Early Frost
Genres:
Drama | Horror
Production Companies:
David Hannay Productions
Filmco Limited
Production Countries:
Australia
Ratings / Certifications:
N/A
Runtime: 92
Private Detective Mike Hayes (Guy Doleman), is working on a divorce case, when he stumbles upon a series of cover-ups that leads to a corpse. His investigation takes him into the lievs of two families living in the Sydney suburbs. Although they look like ordinary people, one of them is the killer. Hayes meets the strange teenager David Prentice (David Franklin), who keeps a violent crime scrapbook, and Val Meadows (Diane McLean), the mistress who believes that someone is trying to kill her. The more the investigation deepens, the more twisted and complex it becomes. It appears the only people who hate Val enough to want her dead, are her own family. Could it be her two sons, alienated by her dominant nature, her lover, or even her best friend?
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Additional Photography:
Paul Bucock
Rod Hinds
Louis Irving
Andrew Lesnie
Alleyn Mearns
David Williamson
Art Direction:
Bob Hilditch
Assistant Camera:
Sally Eccleston
Salik Silverstein
Camera Operator:
David Eggby
Co-Producer:
Geoffrey Brown
Director:
David Hannay
Director of Photography:
David Eggby
Editor:
Tim Street
Executive Producer:
John Fitzpatrick
First Assistant Camera:
David Connell
First Assistant Director:
Stuart Freeman
Grip:
Brett Robinson
Robert Verkerk
Key Grip:
Irvine G. McLaughlin
Producer:
David Hannay
Production Design:
Bob Hilditch
Second Assistant Camera:
Erika Addis
Second Assistant Director:
Michael Bourchier
Still Photographer:
Charles Stringer
Third Assistant Director:
Annie Peacock
Writer:
Terry O'Connor
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