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Stir

Hated... Desperate... Brutalised... ...They can't stop now!

6.4

1h 37m

1980

“Hated... Desperate... Brutalised... ...They can't stop now!”

Synopsis

Filmed in the Clare Valley, Gladstone and the Flinders Ranges in South Australia, this prison movie was inspired by the true life prison riot at Bathurst Jail in 1974 and its subsequent Royal Commission into New South Wales Prisons.

Director

Stephen Wallace

Trailer

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Cast & Crew

Bryan Brown

Bryan Brown

as China Jackson

Max Phipps

Max Phipps

as Norton

Dennis Miller

Dennis Miller

as Redford

Gary Waddell

Gary Waddell

as Dave

Phil Motherwell

as Alby

Michael Gow

as Andrew

Edward Robshaw

as Partidge

Tex Morton

as The Govenor (as Robert 'Tex' Morton)

Ray Marshall

Ray Marshall

as Chalmers

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