John Stanton
Nacimiento : 1944-10-28, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Crippins
Tras liberar a una joven chica beduina de su injusto encarcelamiento en Jerusalén, Phryne Fisher comienza a desentrañar un misterio ancestral relacionado con una serie de esmeraldas malditas, lo que a su vez la lleva a descubrir el motivo de la sospechosa desaparición de la olvidada tribu shirin.
Herbert
Dazza's passion in life is barbecuing, but unfortunately he accidentally gives his neighbours food poisoning. To make amends, he receives tutelage from a Scottish chef, and together they enter an international barbecue competition.
Narrator
Archive footage of Australia and New Zealand forces during WW1, WW2 and the Vietnam conflict. Plus home life between the wars, especially focusing on the homage we pay to those who so bravely sacrificed themselves on our behalf. This is all held together by a wonderful script narrated by John Stanton.
General Lambert
Historia de la vida real de Oliver Woodward. Es 1916 y Woodward debe dejar su joven y nuevo amor para ir al barro y la carnicería del frente occidental, muy por debajo de las líneas alemanas. Woodward y su pelotón de excavadores australianos lucha por defender la filtración enemiga con un sistema de túneles laberínticos lleno de explosivos para cambiar el curso de la guerra.
Narrator (voice)
Twenty years ago, a hard-drinking, fiery British immigrant called Gordon Bennett, came to the remote Australian territory of Christmas Island to become General Secretary of the Union of Christmas Island Workers. By the time he died in 1991, he was known as 'Tai Ko Seng' which, roughly translated, means "big brother who delivers". Every year since his death, people gather on 30 July at the Island's Chinese cemetery, to pay tribute to Bennett as they would to their honoured ancestors. Big Brother of Christmas Island tells the moving story of how the legend of the "Tai Ko Seng" was born.
McTaggart
Sixteen years after returning home, three disillusioned Australian Vietnam conscripts use their army skills to plan and execute the country's biggest bank robbery. And they get away with it. Seven years pass and a petty criminal convicted as the driver in the heist is released from gaol. When his body is fished out of the harbour the grim murder reignites the case.
Frank
Following the death of her mother Tessa (Pamela Rabe), a young woman, returns after many years to the weather-beaten family home on the shores of Sydney's Botany Bay. But the old family home begins to bring old wounds more and more to life. The story unfolds through flashbacks yet as it progresses the flashbacks merge into the present as it becomes apparent that the situation Tessa has returned to is very much the result of that which passed before.
William Anderson
Jason Blade es un hombre que no se atreve a comprometerse plenamente con su mujer, y que pasa todo su tiempo con las "Fuerzas Especiales" para combatir el crimen. Cuando su mujer es secuestrada por su archi-enemigo Baxter, Jason deberá entrar en la central donde se lleva a cabo la batalla con un ejército de ninjas. Sólo entonces podrá hacer frente a Baxter y desactivar una bomba de explosión para salvar a su novia, y demostrarle que él es un hombre.
William Anderson
Un experto en artes marciales va tras una banda criminal y su jefe, que fueron los responsables de la muerte de su pareja.
Alexander
Para Frank Church (Burt Reynolds), un sagaz policía de Chicago, y Della Roberts (Liza Minnelli), una buscona elegante, la pesadilla comienza el día en que fracasa la redada contra un grupo de narcotraficantes: Frank ha empleado más de tres años en preparar la operación que tiene lugar en un lujoso hotel de Chicago, donde ese mismo día conoce a Della. El plan se desarrolla según lo previsto hasta que un misterioso y sádico individuo provoca un baño de sangre, al que sólo sobreviven Frank y Della. Pero la mujer ha logrado ver el rostro del asesino... (FILMAFFINITY)
Abel Magwitch
A humble orphan suddenly becomes a gentleman with the help of an unknown benefactor.
Tyler Brock
Adaptación cinematográfica del best seller de James Clavell. Ambientada a mitad del siglo XIX en plena colonización británica de la China, Tai Pan es un noble inglés especialista en el comercio del opio que intentará introducir sus mercancías utilizando el puerto franco de Hong Kong.
Lance Dillon
Far North Queensland, 1955. Deep in the untamed frontier tough rancher Lance Dillon and his sensual, but bored wife, battle inhospitable nature to eke out a living from their cattle herd. When the aborigines kill the Dillon's prize bull a chase begins that will culminate in bloody tragedy with Lance pitted against Mandaru - an aborigine struggling to maintain his cultural way of life
Eric Connolly
Phar Lap, the big bold chestnut reigned as the king of the turf in the depression that gripped Australia of the 1930s. From his humble beginnings the New Zealand bred horse raced on to become the hero of a nation.
Railey Jordan
The eponymous Dusty is an appropriately named dingo, or wild dog. Roaming the fertile fields of Australia, Dusty is captured as a puppy. Though dingoes are normally averse to human companionship, Dusty attaches himself to an old, worn-out shepherd, played by Bill Kerr. The dog gives Kerr a reason for living, and vice versa. Be sure to have plenty of Kleenex handy for some of the mistier passages of Dusty.
Malcolm Fraser
The drama surrounding the dismissal of Mr. Gough Whitlam as the Labor Prime Minister of Australia - on 11 November, 1975 - by the then Governor-General of Australia, Sir John Kerr - and the subsequent installation, in Parliament, of the Liberal 'caretaker government' and Mr. Malcolm Fraser as the 'caretaker' Prime Minister.
The Bagman
Notorious Australian flop set in the Roaring 20s Sydney follows Kitty O'Rourke who, after her thug husband ends up in jail, becomes a tough gangster on her own, befriends a crooked cop called The Bagman and takes on the competition.