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...Australian films will fare in the world market is a question. The country's wild coasts and mysterious outback provide smashing settings for directors to play with, and there is an exotic quality to Australian history that makes fascinating story material. But there is an undeniable air of provincialism about many Australian films and a choice of theme often too earnestly high-minded...
...quite a different plane is Last Wave Director Peter Weir's earlier Picnic at Hanging Rock. Though not scheduled for the New York festival, it is a haunting re-creation of a true incident in 19th century Australian history, in which some schoolgirls disappear from an outback outing, never to be seen again, and with no satisfactory explanation for their disappearance ever discovered. Weir creates an oppressive atmosphere, a compound of heat, isolation and sexual innuendo that is quite singular. His skill at wringing terror out of emptiness and silence, his sense of the fragility and smallness of Europeans cast...
Central Square Cinema--you'll never guess where it is--Moby Dick, 5:40, 9:40; Outback...
Married. Anne Baxter, 53, film actress (All About Eve, The Razor's Edge) who quit the screen to live on an isolated cattle station in the Australian outback with her second husband, Randolph Gait, and wrote about it in Intermission; and Wall Street Investment Banker David Klee, 69; she for the third time, he for the fourth; in Manhattan...
Knocking about the Australian outback around the middle of the past century was an Irishman, more than half-crazed, called Daniel Morgan. Paroled from prison after six years of "hard labor"-not to mention sodomization, humiliation and deprivation-Morgan roamed the country stealing horses and robbing their riders. His only companion was an aboriginal boy named Billy, who taught him how to use a boomerang and live off the land like a bushman. Eventually Morgan killed a couple of policemen, and a fat ? 1,000 price was fixed on his head. By the time he ran up against...