Emmett Stone

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Emmett Stone
Directed byElizabeth Alexander
Written byMichael Gurr
Elizabeth Alexander
Roger Dunn
Based onplay by Michael Gurr
Produced byAustralian Film Theatre
Starring Kevin Miles
Patricia Kennedy
Dinah Shearing
Production
company
Australian Film Theatre
Release date
  • 1985 (1985)
Country Australia
LanguageEnglish

Emmett Stone is a 1985 Australian film based on a play by Michael Gurr. [1] [2]

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References

  1. Emmett Sont at AusStage
  2. Ed. Scott Murray, Australia on the Small Screen 1970-1995, Oxford Uni Press, 1996 p51