Margaret Nelson

Why is everyone out to sabotage him? Cliff Rowan has been hired to recover a stolen payroll hidden in the rugged Australian hills and mountains near his boyhood town. But instead of a warm welcome and helping hand, his former sweatheart, his old school friends, and in fact, practically the whole town...want him out! When his friend, Riley, is needlessly killed, Cliff realizes the buried strongbox holds more than cold cash. The mystery unfolds.

Larry (Glenn Mason), Warren (Chris Haywood) and Tony (George Spartels) are three friends living the industrialised western suburbs of Sydney, bored by their lives and the kind of work available to them via their car-wrecking yard boss Boyle (Martin Harris). So instead of working, they strip stolen cars, and then despite girlfriend Wendy's (Margaret Nelson's) objections, Larry decides to join the other two in moving up a notch by helping steal TV sets, cassettes and radios in a warehouse robbery organised by Jacko (Terry Camilleri) and his boss Ferret (Saviour Sammut).

オーストラリアで実際に起こった謎の女生徒失踪事件の映画化。映画は、１９００年２月２４日、ピクニックに出掛けた名門女子学園の生徒たちの内数名が忽然と姿を消してしまったこの事件を、独特の色彩美で、かつ神秘的な雰囲気で描いてゆく。この“美しさ”がキーワードとなり、いわゆる“ホラー”とは違った意味での“怖さ”がある作品。オーストラリア時代には「ザ・ラスト・ウェーブ」や本作のように幻想的な作品を手掛けていたＰ・ウィアーの秀作。