Gentle Strangers

Gentle Strangers
Directed by Cecil Holmes
Produced by Roland Beckett
Written by Cecil Holmes
Starring Yee Choo Koo
Music by Barry Conyngham
Cinematography Mick Bornemann
Kerry Brown
Bruce Hillyard
Don McAlpine
David Sanderson
Edited by Graham Chase
Production
company
Release dates
  • 1972 (1972)
Running time
58 minutes
Country Australia
Language English

Gentle Strangers is a 1972 Australian film directed by Cecil Holmes.

Plot

A Chinese boy and a Thai girl have a romance when they meet in a seedy boarding house in Sydney. An Indonesian student is posted to a rural research centre while his wife and child cope with life in the city.

Cast

Production

Cecil Holmes spent a year researching and writing the film, which was made for Film Australia. It was shot on 16mm with a mostly non professional cast.[1]

Release

The film was released through non commercial film libraries and screened on commercial television but did not screen in cinemas.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 Andrew Pike and Ross Cooper, Australian Film 1900–1977: A Guide to Feature Film Production, Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1998 p269

External links

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