High Rolling
1977
High Rolling (also called High Rolling in a Hot Corvette) is an Australian buddy comedy directed by Igor Auzins and written by Forest Redlich. Golden Globe Award winners Joseph Bottoms and Judy Davis are among the cast. The soundtrack for the film was provided by the Australian band, Sherbet. The film was released in Australia on 4 August 1977.
Tex (Bottoms) is an American working at a carnival in Queensland. At the carnival he befriends a boxer, Alby (Taylor) and they decide to travel together to Surfers Paradise on the Gold Coast. They hitch a ride with Arnold (Clayton) but problems arise when Arnold makes unwanted advances towards Alby. Alby beats up Arnold and he and Tex flee with Arnold's suitcase and car. However, the case is full of cash and the car is stocked with marijuana. So it comes as no surprise that Arnold and his friends want them back.
Tex and Alby later give a lift to a sixteen-year-old hitch-hiker, Lynn and try to pick up two women, Barbie and Susie. Tex gets thrown out of a night club and beaten up by a bouncer so Alby takes both girls to bed.
Arnold sends thugs to get them so they end up hijacking a tourist bus. They escape and go off into the sunset with Lyn.[3]
This was Judy Davis' feature film debut.
Tim Burstall later said of the film in 1979:
David Stratton wrote that "the film is strangely unsatisfactory, even on the most basic entertainment level; it was one of the weakest non-endings imaginable."[5]
High Rolling was released on DVD by Umbrella Entertainment in January 2013. The DVD is compatible with region codes 2 and 4 and includes special features such as the theatrical trailer, interviews with Igor Auzins and Robin Copping, and a bonus feature-length film titled The Love Epidemic.[6]
Kinostart: | 04.08.1977 | ||
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Genre: | Buddy-Film | ||
Herstellungsland: | Australien | ||
Originalsprache: | Englisch | ||
IMDB: | 144 |
Regie: | Igor Auzins | |
Drehbuch: | Forrest Redlich | |
Musik: | Sherbet | |
Produzent: | Tim Burstall | |
Darsteller: | Joseph Bottoms | |
Grigor Taylor | ||
Wendy Hughes | ||
John Clayton | ||
Judy Davis |
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