Double Deal (1983 film)

Double Deal is a 1981 Australian film about a bored wife of a rich man who has an affair and becomes a thief.[4]

Double Deal
Directed byBrian Kavanagh
Written byBrian Kavanagh
StarringLouis Jourdan
Angela Punch McGregor
Warwick Comber
Diane Craig
Bruce Spence
Kerry Walker
Music byBruce Smeaton
Production
company
Release date
1983
CountryAustralia
LanguageEnglish
BudgetAU$1 million[1][2]
Box officeAU$3,731 (Australia)[3]

Angela Punch McGregor later said she was "amazed" to be offered the role of a model but accepted the part because she had not worked for a while.

I feared that if I didn't do it I would go down the plug hole The role was a mistake; the film was a mistake. But I didn't know that at the time. Brian Kavanagh turned out to be one of the most sensitive directors to actors that I have ever come across, but I don't think he should write his own scripts.[5]

The film was made without government investment.[6]

Cast

Plot

Peter and Christine Sterling have an uneventful marriage. When a stranger comes into their lives, Christine is intrigued, and the two begin an affair. Things escalate and the two philanderers soon plot to rob Peter of a precious gemstone.

References
  1. Geoff Gardner, "Double Deal", Australian Film 1978–1992, Oxford Uni Press, 1993 p124
  2. "Double tribute to Angela". The Australian Women's Weekly. 17 June 1981. p. 143 Supplement: TV & ENTERTAINMENT WORLD. Retrieved 21 September 2015 – via National Library of Australia.
  3. "Australian Films at the Australian Box Office", Film Victoria Archived 9 February 2014 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved 24 October 2009
  4. David Stratton, The Avocado Plantation: Boom and Bust in the Australian Film Industry, Pan MacMillan, 1990 p90
  5. Jim Schembri, "Angela Punch McGregor", Cinema Papers, December 1984 p 421
  6. "Double tribute to Angela". The Australian Women's Weekly. 17 June 1981. p. 143 Supplement: TV & ENTERTAINMENT WORLD. Retrieved 14 July 2013 – via National Library of Australia.


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