Private Collection (film)

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Private Collection
Directed byKeith Salvat
Written byKeith Salvat
Sandy Sharp
Produced byKeith Salvat
Starring Peter Reynolds
Pamela Stephenson
Brian Blain
CinematographyDavid Gribble
Edited byG. Turney-Smith
Music by Mike Perjanik
Production
company
Keisal/Bonza Films
Release dates
  • June 1972 (1972-06)(premiere)
  • 12 April 1973 (1973-04-12)(commercial release)
Running time
92 minutes
CountryAustralia
LanguageEnglish
Budget$30,000 [1]

Private Collection is a 1972 Australian black comedy film that marked the feature debuts of Pamela Stephenson and Michael Caton.

Contents

Plot

Two rival art collectors, Henry Phillips and Joseph Tibbsworth, engage the services of George Kleptoman, a thief, to steal from each other. In the meantime Mary Ann, Henry's bored wife, has acquired a secret boyfriend and plans mariticide.

Cast

Production

The film was shot on 16mm in Sydney in January 1972. It was the first film with investment from the Australian Film Development Corporation to be publicly shown. [2]

It premiered at the Sydney Film Festival in June of that year. [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 Andrew Pike and Ross Cooper, Australian Film 1900–1977: A Guide to Feature Film Production, Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1998 p264
  2. David Stratton, The Last New Wave: The Australian Film Revival, Angus & Robertson, 1980 p14