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The Night, the Prowler is a Australien film of genre Drama directed by Jim Sharman with Ruth Cracknell

The Night, the Prowler (1978)

The Night, the Prowler
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Length 1h30
Directed by
OriginAustralie
Genres Drama,    Comedy,    Comedy-drama
Rating57% 2.8579452.8579452.8579452.8579452.857945

The Night the Prowler (aka. Patrick White's The Night the Prowler) is a 1978 Australian film produced by Anthony Buckley and directed by Jim Sharman and written by Patrick White. Ruth Cracknell was nominated in 1979 for an AFI Award for Best Actress in a Lead Role for her part.

Paul Byrnes from Australian screen described:



The film is a savage satire on the neuroses of the privileged of Sydney’s eastern suburbs, where White lived, and the director Jim Sharman grew up. Much of the satire verges on invective, and the film was criticised for being ponderous, pretentious and condescending. Parts of it are like that – especially some of the dialogue – but the film also has some moments where everything works.

Actors

Ruth Cracknell

(Doris Bannister)John Derum

(John Galbraith)Maggie Kirkpatrick

(Madge Hopkirk)Kerry Walker

(Felicity Bannister)Terry Camilleri

(The Prowler)
And :
Tim Burns
Paul Chubb
Kevin Manser
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