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The City's Edge

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The City's Edge
Directed byKen Quinnell
Written byKen Quinnell
Bob Merritt
Based onnovel The Running Man by W. A. Harbinson
Produced byPom Oliver
Errol Sullivan
StarringTommy Lewis
Hugo Weaving
Katrina Foster
Mark Lee
Music byChris Neal
Production
company
CB Films Production
Release date
  • 1983 (1983)
Running time
86 minutes
CountryAustralia
LanguageEnglish

The City's Edge is a 1983 Australian film co-written by Aboriginal Australian writer Bob Merritt.[1]

Plot

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Andy comes to Sydney and falls in love with the sister of a heroin addict.

Cast

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Production

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The film was originally entitled Running Man and was never released theatrically in Australia although it was in the UK.[2]

Merritt later claimed he preferred to "write off" the experience but says it gave him the track record to make Short Changed (1985).[3]

References

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  1. ^ Ed. Scott Murray, Australia on the Small Screen 1970-1995, Oxford Uni Press, 1996 p. 26
  2. ^ David Stratton, The Avocado Plantation: Boom and Bust in the Australian Film Industry, Pan MacMillan, 1990 p. 205
  3. ^ Mary Colbert, "Positive action: Bob Merritt, playwright and screenwriter", Cinema Papers, May 1985 p. 24
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