Deadline (1982 film)

Deadline (stylized as ..Deadline..) is a 1981 Australian-American made-for-television thriller drama film directed by Arch Nicholson and co-produced by Hanna-Barbera Australia and New South Wales Film Corporation.

Deadline
Directed byArch Nicholson
Produced byHal McElroy
Written byWalter Davis
StarringBarry Newman
Bill Kerr
Trisha Noble
Alwyn Kurts
Bruce Spence
Production
company
Distributed byWorldvision Enterprises
Release date
30 December 1981 (Sydney)[1]
Running time
94 minutes
CountryAustralia
United States
LanguageEnglish
BudgetA$750,000[2]

Plot

Journalist Barney Duncan (Barry Newman) discovers that an earthquake on the Australian outback was found to be a small nuclear detonation, and the work of an extortionist who vowed to detonate more devices unless his conditions for blackmail are met.

Cast
  • Barry Newman
  • Trisha Noble
  • Bruce Spence
  • Alwyn Kurts

Production

It was originally known as Shadow Effects and was shot on location in Sydney, Canberra and the mining town of Broken Hill. It was a pilot for an unmade TV series which was to be called Foreign Correspondent.[3][4]

At one stage Graham Kennedy was going to play a priest.[5]

Production was held up due to protests from Actors Equity.[6]

"I like the concept, it's a contemporary issue," said Newman during filming in December 1980. "I'm a news nut; my favorite actor is Walter Cronkite."[7]

References
  1. "TV Guide". Sydney Morning Herald. 27 December 1981. p. 44.
  2. "Production Survey", Cinema Papers, May–June 1981 p170
  3. Ed. Scott Murray, Australia on the Small Screen 1970-1995, Oxford Uni Press, 1996 p39-40
  4. "Pete Smith". The Australian Women's Weekly. 48 (37). Australia. 11 February 1981. p. 40 (TV WORLD). Retrieved 25 November 2020 – via National Library of Australia.
  5. "TIMESTYLE TELEVISION". The Canberra Times. 55 (16, 432). Australian Capital Territory, Australia. 21 September 1980. p. 15. Retrieved 25 November 2020 – via National Library of Australia.
  6. "timestyle". The Canberra Times. 55 (16, 502). Australian Capital Territory, Australia. 30 November 1980. p. 16. Retrieved 25 November 2020 – via National Library of Australia.
  7. Groves, Don (7 December 1980). "Inhibitions don't curb barry". Sydney Morning Herald. p. 44.


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