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Stir

Hated... Desperate... Brutalised... ...They can't stop now!
May 11, 1980 · 1h 37m
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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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CAST

Bryan Brown
China Jackson
Max Phipps
Norton
Dennis Miller
Redford
Gary Waddell
Dave
Phil Motherwell
Alby
Michael Gow
Andrew
Edward Robshaw
Partidge
Tex Morton
The Govenor (as Robert 'Tex' Morton)
Directed by Stephen Wallace

DETAILS

Status
Released
Original language
EN
Budget
$420,000
Revenue
—
Production
Smiley Productions, New South Wales Film Corp.
Country
AU

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