Let the Balloon Go

Let the Balloon Go
Let the Balloon Go
Directed by	Oliver Howes
Written by	Cliff Green; Oliver Howes; Richard Mason;
Based on	novel by Ivan Southall
Produced by	Richard Mason; Hal and Jim McElroy, associate producers
Starring	Robert Bettles; Janet Kingsbury; John Ewart;
Cinematography	Dean Semler
Edited by	Max Lemon
Music by	George Dreyfus
Production; company	Film Australia
Distributed by	20th Century-Fox
Release date	16 December 1976;
Running time	92 mins
Country	Australia
Language	English
Budget	AU$400,000

Let the Balloon Go is a 1976 Australian children's film about a young boy with polio in 1917.

Plot

In 1917 rural New South Wales, a young boy with polio struggles to break free of his overprotective mother.

The film was shot near the town of Carcoar.^[2]

The film sold widely overseas including to the United States.^[1]

^ ^a ^b Andrew Pike and Ross Cooper, Australian Film 1900–1977: A Guide to Feature Film Production, Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1998, p 309
^ "LOVELY OLD TOWN IN FILM STAR MAKE-UP". The Australian Women's Weekly. National Library of Australia. 24 December 1975. p. 34. Retrieved 28 September 2012.

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