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Starring: Rachel Roberts, Vivean Gray, Helen Morse, Kirsty Child, Tony
Llewellyn-Jones, Jacki Weaver, Frank Gunnell and Anne Lambert.
Director of Photography: Russell Boyd
Music by: Bruce Smeaton
Written by: Cliff Green (novel by J. Lindsay)
Running Time: 1hr, 46min.
- British Academy Award winner for best cinematography (Russell Boyd)
Based on the novel by Joan Lindsay, this film, set in 1901, tells the
story of three schoolgirls who mysteriously disappear while at a picnic
with schoolmates.
This film received a mixed reception at home but went on to become
the first great international success of the Australian New Wave.
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