The City's Edge

The City's Edge
Directed by	Ken Quinnell
Written by	Ken Quinnell Bob Merritt
Based on	novel The Running Man by W. A. Harbinson
Produced by	Pom Oliver Errol Sullivan
Starring	Tommy Lewis Hugo Weaving Katrina Foster Mark Lee
Music by	Chris Neal
Production company	CB Films Production
Release date	1983 (1983)
Running time	86 minutes
Country	Australia
Language	English

The City's Edge is a 1983 Australian film co-written by Aboriginal Australian writer Bob Merritt. ^[1]

Plot

Andy comes to Sydney and falls in love with the sister of a heroin addict.

Cast

• Tommy Lewis
• Hugo Weaving as Andy White
• Katrina Foster
• Mark Lee as Jim Wentworth
• Tom E. Lewis as Jack Collins
• Joanne Samuel as Prostitute 1

Production

The film was originally entitled Running Man and was never released theatrically in Australia although it was in the UK. ^[2]

Merritt later claimed he preferred to "write off" the experience but says it gave him the track record to make Short Changed (1985). ^[3]

References

1. Ed. Scott Murray, Australia on the Small Screen 1970-1995, Oxford Uni Press, 1996 p. 26
2. David Stratton, The Avocado Plantation: Boom and Bust in the Australian Film Industry, Pan MacMillan, 1990 p. 205
3. Mary Colbert, "Positive action: Bob Merritt, playwright and screenwriter", Cinema Papers, May 1985 p. 24

External links

• The City's Edge at IMDb