Gentle Strangers is a 1972 Australian film directed by Cecil Holmes.

Gentle Strangers
Directed byCecil Holmes
Written byCecil Holmes
Produced byRoland Beckett
StarringYee Choo Koo
CinematographyMick Bornemann
Kerry Brown
Bruce Hillyard
Don McAlpine
David Sanderson
Edited byGraham Chase
Music byBarry Conyngham
Production
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Release date
  • 1972 (1972)
Running time
58 minutes
CountryAustralia
LanguageEnglish

Plot

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A Chinese boy and a Thai girl have a romance when they meet in a seedy boarding house in Sydney. An Indonesian student is posted to a rural research centre while his wife and child cope with life in the city.

Cast

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  • Yee Choo Koo as Preeyan
  • Clem Chow as Lawrence
  • Rick Lay as himself
  • Eric Lay as himself
  • Yanti Lay as herself
  • Jennifer West as Miss Emerson
  • Lyn Murphy as Mrs Baker

Production

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Cecil Holmes spent a year researching and writing the film, which was made for Film Australia. It was shot on 16mm with a mostly non professional cast.[1]

Release

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The film was released through non commercial film libraries and screened on commercial television but did not screen in cinemas.[1]

References

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  1. ^ a b Andrew Pike and Ross Cooper, Australian Film 1900–1977: A Guide to Feature Film Production, Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1998 p269
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