The director of Uncommon Valor's 1971 psychological thriller film was based on a novel that follows a young schoolteacher from what Australian city?
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Ted Kotcheff William Theodore "Ted" Kotcheff (born April 7, 1931; as Velichko Todorov Tsochev) is a Bulgarian-Canadian film and television director and producer, known primarily for his work on several high-profile British and American television productions such as "Armchair Theatre" and "". He has also directed numerous successful films including the seminal Australian classic "Wake in Fright," action films such as "First Blood" and "Uncommon Valor", and comedies like "Weekend at Bernie's, Fun with Dick and Jane," and "North Dallas Forty". He is sometimes credited as William T. Kotcheff, and currently resides in Beverly Hills, California.
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Wake in Fright Wake in Fright (initially released as Outback outside Australia) is a 1971 psychological thriller film directed by Ted Kotcheff, written by Evan Jones and starring Gary Bond, Donald Pleasence, Chips Rafferty, Sylvia Kay and Jack Thompson. Based on Kenneth Cook's 1961 novel of the same name, the film follows a young schoolteacher from Sydney who descends into personal moral degradation after finding himself stranded in a brutal, menacing town in outback Australia.
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Jean Bedford Jean Bedford (born 4 February 1946) is an English-born Australian writer who is best known for her crime fiction, but who has also written novels and short stories, as well as nonfiction. She is also an editor and journalist, and has taught creative writing in several universities for over 20 years.
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The Dyehouse The Dyehouse (1961) is the debut novel by Australian writer Mena Calthorpe.
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Unman, Wittering and Zigo (film) Unman, Wittering and Zigo is a 1971 British thriller film directed by John Mackenzie and starring David Hemmings, Douglas Wilmer and Tony Haygarth. It is adapted by Simon Raven from Giles Cooper's 1958 radio drama "Unman, Wittering and Zigo". A new teacher arrives at a school and begins to suspect his predecessor was murdered by the pupils, though his suspicions are written off as paranoia. He sets out to prevent the same fate from befalling him.
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Scott Monk Scott Monk (born 14 June 1974) is an Australian author. Monk was born in Macksville in New South Wales. He later lived in North Ryde, attending local public school Peter Board High, before moving to South Australia to join "The Advertiser" as a cadet journalist. In 1999 he won South Australia's Young Journalist of the Year Award.
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A City's Child A City's Child is a 1972 Australian film directed by Brian Kavanagh.
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Wild Cat Falling Wild Cat Falling is a 1965 novel by Australian author Mudrooroo (Colin Johnson). The novel depicts the life of a former 'bodgie' as he leaves gaol and cynically searches for purpose in life. The author leaves the main character unnamed, although near the end, an old man says that this character is "Jessie Duggan's boy." The novel uses a series of flashbacks to highlight the character's struggle in the past. "Wild Cat Falling" also shows the effects of the Australian Government's former policy of Assimilation and an Aboriginal's struggle for access and equity in the Australian legal system. As a result of this "Wild Cat Falling" has been said to be a 'political message'.
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Colin Thiele Colin Milton Thiele AC ( ; 16 November 1920 – 4 September 2006) was an Australian author and educator. He was renowned for his award-winning children's fiction, most notably the novels "Storm Boy", "Blue Fin", the "Sun on the Stubble" series, and "February Dragon".
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Sonia Borg Sonia Ingeborg Borg {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (20 February 1931 – 4 February 2016) was an Australian writer and producer, who was one of the leading screenwriters of films and TV in the 1970s. She moved to Australia from Germany (Vienna, Austria) in 1961 and worked as a television actress before becoming an actors' tutor at Crawford Productions in Melbourne. She then became a writer, and worked on most of Crawfords dramas at the time. In the late 1970s she also became known for writing films about animals.
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Gabrielle Carey Gabrielle Carey (born 10 January 1959) is an Australian writer noted for the teen novel, "Puberty Blues", which she co-wrote with Kathy Lette. This novel was the first teenage novel published in Australia that was written by teenagers. Carey has since become a senior lecturer in the Creative Writing program at the University of Technology Sydney, studying James Joyce and Randolph Stow.
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The Bluest Eye The Bluest Eye was written by Toni Morrison in 1970. Morrison, a single mother of two sons, wrote the novel while she taught at Howard University. She centered the story around a young African American girl named Pecola who grows up during the years following the Great Depression in Lorain, Ohio. Because of her dark skin color, Pecola gets taunted for her appearance as the members of her community associate beauty with "whiteness". She ultimately develops an inferiority complex, which fuels her desire for blue eyes. The point of view switches between the perspective of Claudia MacTeer, the daughter of Pecola's foster parents, and multiple third-person limited viewpoints. Due to the controversial issues the book raises such as racism, incest, and child molestation, there have been numerous attempts to ban it from schools and libraries.
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Ransom (Cleary novel) Ransom was a 1973 novel by Australian author Jon Cleary, the third to feature his detective hero Scobie Malone. Cleary also wrote "The Sundowners" and "The High Commissioner". The novel was published by Fontana Press on November 3, 1975.
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Millicent Armstrong Millicent Sylvia Armstrong (1 May 1888 – 18 November 1973) was an Australian playwright and farmer who wrote primarily about the experiences of country life in early 20th century Australia.
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T. Inglis Moore T. Inglis Moore (1901-1978) was an Australian writer, anthologist and academic who was born in Camden, New South Wales.
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Winter Chill Winter Chill is a 1995 novel from Australian author Jon Cleary. It was the twelfth book featuring Sydney detective Scobie Malone and centers on the death of an American lawyer at a convention - and the murder of the security guard who found him.
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Clive Crowley Clive Stanley Crowley DCM (2 August 1890 – 25 June 1918) was an Australian grazier and soldier who was killed during the First World War. Letters between Crowley and his mother were part of the historical material that inspired the libretto of "An Australian War Requiem".
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Ash Road Ash Road (1965) is a novel for children by Australian author Ivan Southall. It won the in 1966."'
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Ed Devereaux Edward Sidney Devereaux (27 August 192517 December 2003), better known professionally as Ed Devereaux, was an Australian actor, director and scriptwriter who lived in the United Kingdom for many years. He was best known for playing the part of Matt Hammond the head ranger in the Australian television series "Skippy the Bush Kangaroo". He was also involved in the series behind the scenes, Devereaux writing the script and directing the episode "The Veteran" (1969), for which he received much critical acclaim. Devereaux based the story of the episode "Double Trouble" on an idea conceived by his children, wrote the screenplay of "Summer Storm" and the script for "The Mine".
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Seven Little Australians Seven Little Australians is a classic Australian children's literature novel by Ethel Turner, published in 1894. Set mainly in Sydney in the 1880s, it relates the adventures of the seven mischievous Woolcot children, their stern army father Captain Woolcot, and flighty stepmother Esther.
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Ronald McKie Ronald Cecil Hamlyn McKie (11 December 1909 – 2 May 1991) was an Australian novelist. He was born in 1909 in Toowoomba, Queensland. After receiving his education at the Brisbane Grammar School and the University of Queensland, he worked as a journalist on newspapers in Melbourne, Sydney, Singapore and China. He served in the AIF during World War II from 1942–1943, following which he served as war correspondent for several Australian and UK newspapers. After the war he worked for the "Sydney Daily Telegraph".
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Lucy Godiva Woodcock Lucy Godiva Woodcock (23 February 1889 – 29 February 1968) was an Australian pacifist, schoolteacher, trade union official and women's activist. Woodcock was born in Granville, Sydney, New South Wales and died in Ashfield, Sydney, New South Wales.