Graham Kennedy Bryan Brown John Hargreaves John Jarratt Graeme Blundell Ian Gilmour Richard Moir
Cinematography
Donald McAlpine
Edited by
Brian Kavanagh
Music by
Michael Carlos
Production companies
Samson Production Australian Film Commission New South Wales Film Corporation
Distributed by
Roadshow Film Distributors
Release date
1 March 1979 (1979-03-01)
Running time
92 minutes
Country
Australia
Language
English
Budget
A$600,000[1]
Box office
A$866,000 (Australia)
The Odd Angry Shot is an 1979 Australian war comedy film written, directed and produced by Tom Jeffrey (with Sue Millikin). It is based on the book of the same title by William Nagle, and follows the experiences of Australian soldiers during the Vietnam War. The movie, which was shot on location in New South Wales and Canungra, Queensland, traces the tour of duty of an Australian Special Air Service Regiment reconnaissance team from their departure to their return home to Australia. It avoids much of the political comment on Australia’s involvement in Vietnam, unlike Hollywood films which tend to explore the rights and wrongs of the Vietnam War.
The film focuses on the soldiers in their cantonments away from the battlefield, where they spend the bulk of their time playing cards, smoking, drinking beer, nursing their tinea, making jokes and messing about with American forces. The film also contains some small scale battle scenes. When the men return to Australia, they reflect on how both they and the general Australian society have changed. The film was sold to several countries including the US, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Norway and Greece.[2]
^David Stratton, The Last New Wave: The Australian Film Revival, Angus & Robertson, 1980 p123-125
^"The Od dAngry Shot". IMDb.
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