While recoering from his WWII wounds in Australia, a young soldier debates whether to go AWOL and remain in Australia where he is quickly falling for a local girl. Read more
| Starring | Matt Dillon, Debra Byrne, Bryan Brown, Bill Hunter |
|---|---|
| Director | Michael Jenkins |
| Genres | Action/Adventure, Thriller |
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While recoering from his WWII wounds in Australia, a young soldier debates whether to go AWOL and remain in Australia where he is quickly falling for a local girl.
| Starring | Matt Dillon, Debra Byrne, Bryan Brown, Bill Hunter |
|---|---|
| Director | Michael Jenkins |
| Studio | PRISM LEISURE |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 33 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Genres | Action/Adventure, Thriller |
| Language | English |
| Released | DVD: 25 Apr 2008 Production year: 1985 |
| Format | DVD |
This wildly ill-conceived curiosity from Australia — apparently intended as a Cabaret meets From Here to Eternity romance — is an obscure must for Matt Dillon fans, although he seems understandably ill at ease in a musical drama set in the Second World War. Dillon's a troubled American GI who goes AWOL in Sydney and hides out with nightclub singer Debbie Byrne, who has a dance routine for every melodramatic development. Lots of flashy production numbers fail utterly to evoke the right era or further the scanty plot, but Australian stalwarts like Bryan Brown and Bill Hunter bolster the bizarre proceedings.
I watch as many films with an Australian connection as I can. Most of them have a good deal of merit. Sadly, I can't find a kind word for this one. It might just as well have been filmed entirely on set.
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