Release Date

15 Jan, 1969

Runtime

01:38: (HH:MM)

Synopsis

Frankie McCoy (Ken Shorter) is a born loser from the Sydney suburb of Newtown, and a gambler and a bit of an SP bookie. When he's conscripted into the army to fight in the Vietnam war, he deserts, but in pursuit of money, he falls into debt with SP bookies at the local pub.This film, shot at Kapooka camp, contains one of the only depictions in Australian cinema of soldiers training for Vietnam.

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Actors

Ken Shorter

Rowena Wallace

Carmen Duncan

Judith Fisher

Lyndall Barbour

Slim DeGrey

Max Cullen

Crew