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While in Broken Hill, I did try and seek out a few locations used for filming the 1971 Aussie classic, Wake in Fright.
The Imperial was used in one of the night shots, where John (Gary Bond) and Jock (Chips Rafferty) were seen walking across the road.
Seems the location had pride in the Rafferty connection, with a plaque on the wall.
Oxide Street, Broken Hill
One of my favorite Australian movies of all time was the Ozploitation movie, Wake In Fright.
Much of its filming was done in the NSW Outback, including Horse Lake, Silverton and Broken Hill (renamed as Bundanyabba).
The Sulphide St station was used as one of the filming locations.
A scene from Wake In Fright (Outback) a film from 1971.
A mixed passenger / freight train calls at the small outback halt.
Believed filmed at Horse Lake Siding, on the Broken Hill line in new South Wales..
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Of the maybe 300+ films I saw this year, these are the best ones. Some of them were released last year and I’ve been a bit slow getting round to them. Some of them were released even longer ago. The criteria are – I watched them in 2014 and I liked them. That’s it.
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When Bobbie first moved to Broken Hill she found this old neglected church in Silverton which she bought, to save it from falling into a heap of rubble. People asked why she would buy "a pile of stones" but she was drawn to it for its charm and has since restored it enough to hold her daughter's wedding.
Bobbie's husband worked for the ABC for many years and because married women couldn't work in the 60's, she used to show visiting filmmakers various locations in the area for commercials and feature films. One director suggested that she should run her own casting agency and so she took his advice has since worked with many feature films including 'Rikki and Pete', 'Mad Max' and 'Wake in Fright'.
Bobbie grew up on a rice farm in Griffith and used to ride her horse for 5 miles to get to school. When her younger brother started school they drove a sulky instead. Because the journey was so far sometimes they used to stop on the way home to play marbles. Since then she went to Mossvale boarding school and lived in Sydney where she met her husband, John. Together they moved to Broken Hill.
Wake in fright
Looking at this I couldn't help noticing the cover it certainly doesn't look like the actor who played the role of an indentured teacher stuck in the bush. Looks very much like Jack Thompson.
But it was the other headline that attracted my attention, "Victoria's Fires: Why weren't we warned?". The warnings are there if you know what to look for. The evidence is on the ground, if you look. The amount of fuel load on the ground is high, there hasn't been a fire for many years and it was a total fire ban with extreme weather. Maybe the article is referring to the lack of lack of warnings on the day? Well by then it was too late.
I used to work in the Eltham shire when I was at Uni. The *green* image was taken seriously. The running joke was you'd get complaints if you cut the road sides too short. There is a problem in this particular area and it scares me just as much as the film. Take a look for yourself at a some of the fallen timber, dead trees and lack of clearing of dead wood in Eltham. Most of the problem starts with the wrong mindset.
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