Crosstalk (film)

Crosstalk
Directed by Mark Egerton
Keith Salvat
Produced by Errol Sullivan
Written by Linda Lane
Mark Egerton
Denis Whitburn (additional material)
Based on a script by Keith Salvat
Starring Gary Day
Penny Downie
John Ewart
Music by Chris Neal
Cinematography Vincent Morton
Edited by Colin Waddy
Production
company
Wall to Wall Ltd
NSW Film Corporation
Release dates
1982
Running time
83 minutes
Country Australia
Language English
Budget A$1.2 million[1]
Box office A$26,000 (Australia)

Crosstalk is a 1982 science fiction thriller film made in Australia and produced by the New South Wales Film Corporation.

Plot

A highly advanced computer witnesses a murder and resorts to violence to protect its own future.[2]

Cast

Production

In 1979 Keith Salvat, who had made the film Private Collection (1972), wrote a script inspired by Rear Window (1954) called High Rise, about a man trapped in a high rise building because of an injury. He received from development money from the New South Wales Film Corporation and wrote early drafts with the assistance of Byron Kennedy. Then Ross Matthews became involved as producer, and the NSWFC agreed to finance the entire movie themselves under the title Wall to Wall...[3]

Just before filming commenced Ross Matthews got another film funded, Hoodwink (1981) and so brought in Errol Sullivan as co-producer. Filming began in 1981 and was marked by difficulties and tensions, particularly between Sullivan and Salvat. Salvat shot for 19 days, then on 31 May 1981 Sullivan and Matthews fired Salvat and replaced him with first assistant director Mark Egerton. Production was shut down for a week while Egerton and Denis Whitburn rewrote the script. Among the changes made were a new opening sequence and removing most of the exteriors so more scenes could be shot in the one set.[1]

Salvat requested that his name be taken off the film and that the title be changed. Errol Sullivan claims that only one or two scenes of Salvat's remain in the final film.[1]

Box office

Crosstalk grossed $26,000 at the box office in Australia.[4]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 David Stratton, The Avocado Plantation: Boom and Bust in the Australian Film Industry, Pan MacMillan, 1990 p255-261
  2. Halliwell, William K. (1985). The Filmgoers Guide to Australian Films. Angus & Robertson Publishers, North Ryde. ISBN 0-207-15138-5.
  3. Harrison, Tony (1994). The Australian Film and Television Companion. Simon and Schuster Australia. ISBN 0-7318-0455-4.
  4. Film Victoria - Australian Films at the Australian Box Office Archived 18 February 2011 at the Wayback Machine.


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