STONE 7th February 2020



Pics and Flicks is beginning 2020 with a special opportunity to meet the director of this Australian cult film.  Sandy Harbutt is a film director, actor and also a local resident.  He will join us at the screening and speak on the film, it's making and the social context of the era.

Stone is a very early entry in the Ozploitation genre of Australian film, set in Sydney at the end of the Vietnam War, when young veterans and the community were coping with the aftermath of the war experience.

We step back into this Australian film history, with the screening of Stone.

The year is1974 and Sydney detective Stone is investigating the murders of several Gravediggers motorcycle gang members.  Working undercover in the gang, he uncovers a conspiracy behind the deaths.

The cast includes many young Australian actors who went on to significant careers, including some who also appeared in "Mad Max".
  • Cast includes: 
    • Ken Shorter
    • Sandy Harbutt - also the writer, director, producer
    • Deryck Barnes
    • Roger Ward
    • Vincent Gil
    • Bill Hunter
    • Helen Morse
    • Rebecca Gillings
    • Gary McDonald
    • Drew Forsythe
    • and others
  • Rating: R (sex, nudity, violence and language)
  • Directed By: Sandy Harbutt
  • Written By: Sandy Harbutt
  • Runtime: 97 minutes
Review: Roaring into Australian cinemas five years before a certain leather-clad road warrior raised hell in a dystopian dust-riddled future, Stone is for bikes what Mad Max was for cars: an anti-conventional head trip seemingly powered by lunatics and splattered with striking aesthetic flourishes.
-Source: Luke Buckmaster-The Guardian.

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