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The film was invited to screen at the Directors Fortnight segment of the 1987 Cannes Film Festival.<ref name=”stratton2″>David Stratton, ”The Avocado Plantation: Boom and Bust in the Australian Film Industry”, Pan MacMillan, 1990 p236-238</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article213877158 |title=FROM-THE CUTTING-ROOM FLOOR |newspaper=[[Filmnews]] |volume=18 |issue=2 |location=New South Wales, Australia |date=1 March 1988 |accessdate=18 May 2019 |page=4 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref> |
The film was invited to screen at the Directors Fortnight segment of the 1987 Cannes Film Festival.<ref name=”stratton2″>David Stratton, ”The Avocado Plantation: Boom and Bust in the Australian Film Industry”, Pan MacMillan, 1990 p236-238</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article213877158 |title=FROM-THE CUTTING-ROOM FLOOR |newspaper=[[Filmnews]] |volume=18 |issue=2 |location=New South Wales, Australia |date=1 March 1988 |accessdate=18 May 2019 |page=4 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref> |
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Reviewing for the Sydney Morning Herald [[David Stratton]] called it “a good, old-fashioned chase thriller”, giving it a positive review but noting “the pacing isn’t maintained throughout, and the music is sometimes inaptly used. But it is a rollicking good adventure yarn, made by a film-maker who knows just what he’s doing.”<ref>{{Citation | last= Stratton | first= David| title= A surfer worth the paddle | url= | periodical= The Sydney Morning Herald | date= 3 March 1988}}</ref> Rob Lowing of the Sun-Herald gave it 2 1/2 stars and writes “The Surfer is a rough diamond of a film which still needs a little polishing here and there.”<ref>{{Citation | last= Lowing | first= Rob | title= Murder and blackmail in Queensland | url= | periodical= The Sun-Herald | date= 6 March 1988}}</ref> The Canberra Times’ Dougal Macdonald critisised the films “trite” dialogue, the “dumb” characters and the “absurd” plot and says “The Surfer is one to avoid unless you are a masochist who finds satisfaction in irrational cliches that are so over-the-top they end up being unintentionally funny.”<ref>{{Citation | last= Macdonald | first= Dougal | title=”Surfer” drowns in sea of absurdity| url= https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/102044240 | periodical= The Canberra Times | date= 18 August 1988}}</ref> |
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1986 Australian film
| The Surfer | |
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| Directed by | Frank Shields |
| Written by | David Marsh |
| Based on | story by Frank Shields |
| Starring | Gary Day Gosia Dobrowolska |
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Running time |
90 minutes |
| Country | Australia |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $1 million |
The Surfer (also known as Death Wave) is a 1986 Australian film directed by Frank Shields and starring Gary Day and Gosia Dobrowolska.[1] It was filmed in South-East Queensland.[2]
The screenplay concerns a beach bum whose best friend is murdered and who becomes involved in a cross country chase.
The film was invited to screen at the Directors Fortnight segment of the 1987 Cannes Film Festival.[3][4]
Reviewing for the Sydney Morning Herald David Stratton called it “a good, old-fashioned chase thriller”, giving it a positive review but noting “the pacing isn’t maintained throughout, and the music is sometimes inaptly used. But it is a rollicking good adventure yarn, made by a film-maker who knows just what he’s doing.”[5] Rob Lowing of the Sun-Herald gave it 2 1/2 stars and writes “The Surfer is a rough diamond of a film which still needs a little polishing here and there.”[6] The Canberra Times’ Dougal Macdonald critisised the films “trite” dialogue, the “dumb” characters and the “absurd” plot and says “The Surfer is one to avoid unless you are a masochist who finds satisfaction in irrational cliches that are so over-the-top they end up being unintentionally funny.”[7]
- ^ “The Sydney Morning Herald – Google News Archive Search”. news.google.com. Retrieved 18 May 2019.
- ^ Day, Gary; Dobrowolska, Gosia; Mullinar, Rod (3 March 1988), The Surfer, Frontier Films, Producer’s Circle Production, retrieved 10 March 2024
- ^ David Stratton, The Avocado Plantation: Boom and Bust in the Australian Film Industry, Pan MacMillan, 1990 p236-238
- ^ “FROM-THE CUTTING-ROOM FLOOR”. Filmnews. Vol. 18, no. 2. New South Wales, Australia. 1 March 1988. p. 4. Retrieved 18 May 2019 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ Stratton, David (3 March 1988), “A surfer worth the paddle”, The Sydney Morning Herald
- ^ Lowing, Rob (6 March 1988), “Murder and blackmail in Queensland”, The Sun-Herald
- ^ Macdonald, Dougal (18 August 1988), “‘Surfer’ drowns in sea of absurdity”, The Canberra Times
