Niel Lynne

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Neil Lynne
Directed by David Baker
Written byDavid Baker
Paul Davies (writer)
Based onan idea by David Baker
Produced byTom Burstall
StarringPaul Williams
Sigrid Thornton
Judy Morris
Brandon Burke
David Argue
CinematographyBruce McNaughton
Edited byDon Saunders
Music by Chris Neal
Production
company
Niel Lynne Productions
Release date
  • 1985 (1985)
Running time
125 minutes
CountryAustralia
LanguageEnglish
BudgetAU$1.9 million [1] [2]

Niel Lynne (also known as Best Enemies) is a 1985 Australian film about a young man during the 1960s. [3]

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Plot

Niel Lynne (Paul Williams) is a romantic influenced by his rebellious cousin Eric. Niel falls in love with his cousin Patricia (Judy Morris), who has spent time in Paris.

Patricia then goes to Canberra. Neil joins Eric in Melbourne, where Eric is dating the beautiful Fennimore (Sigrid Thornton). After working as an editor for a student newspaper, Niel then volunteers to fight in Vietnam and Patricia joins the Viet Cong. They are finally reunited and get married.

Cast

Production

David Baker tried to get up the film for eight years. The script was inspired by 'Siren Voices', Henry Handel Richardson's 1896 translation of a story by Danish writer, J.P. Jacobs, Niels Lyhne. It was originally set in the 1930s but Baker updated it to the Vietnam War. [4]

The film was funded by a pre-sale to Channel Seven and to the Australian Film Commission's Special Production Fund. [1] It was shot over seven weeks in and around Melbourne. [4]

The film finished under budget and the management company making the film were allowed to be reimbursed up to 10% of the $1.9 million budget if the production ran under - Niel Lynne ran under budget to almost exactly that amount and the money was paid out as bonuses. [1]

David Baker cut eleven minutes from the film including a subplot involving Nicki Paull as Lynne's teenage bride who is killed in a car accident. [1]

Release

Despite the strength of its cast, the film was never released to cinemas and went straight to television. [1] Later released in America on video under the title "Best Enemies"

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 David Stratton, The Avocado Plantation: Boom and Bust in the Australian Film Industry, Pan MacMillan, 1990 p155-157
  2. ↑ "Production Survey", Cinema Papers, October 1984 p348
  3. ↑ Ed. Scott Murray, Australia on the Small Screen 1970-1995, Oxford Uni Press, 1996 p111
  4. 1 2 Brian Courtis, 'An unusual direction for an unusual film', The Age, 4 September 1984 p 14. Retrieved 14 October 2012
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