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The Dismissal is a film of genre Drama directed by George Miller with Max Phipps

The Dismissal (1983)

The Dismissal
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The Dismissal is an Australian television miniseries, first screened in 1983, that dramatised the events of the 1975 Australian constitutional crisis.

It was partly written and directed by the noted film makers George Miller and Phillip Noyce as well as Mad Max screenwriter Terry Hayes, with cinematography by Dean Semler.



The miniseries comprised six one-hour episodes. It was originally broadcast by Network Ten, beginning on 6 March 1983 (the day after the 1983 federal election), and was also broadcast in the United Kingdom.

It was voted the 19th-best Australian television show on the 50 Years 50 Shows list.

In the 1970s there were several attempts to make a film based on the same story called King Hit written by Erwin Rado and Bruce Grant. Phillip Noyce and Paul Cox were both attached as directors for a time.

Actors

Max Phipps

(Gough Whitlam)John Meillon

(Sir John Kerr)Tony Barry

(The Press Secretary)John Stanton

(Malcolm Fraser)John Hargreaves

(Dr. Jim Cairns)
And :
Bill Hunter
Ruth Cracknell
George Ogilvie
Vincent Ball
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