| The Winds of Jarrah | |
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| Directed by | Mark Egerton |
| Written by | Mark Egerton Bob Ellis Anne Brooksbank |
| Based on | novel The House in the Timberwoods (1959) by Joyce Dingwell |
| Starring | Susan Lyons Terence Donovan |
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| Country | Australia |
| Language | English |
| Budget | A$2.5 million [1] |
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The film was financed in part by the Australian Film Commission and the Film Corporation of Western Australia.
Screenwriter Bob Ellis later called it a "shocking film.. which, would you believe, started out as a very good script and only about one sentence of it survived." [3]
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