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The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith
The true story of a part aboriginal man who finds the pressure of adapting to white culture intolerable, and as a result snaps in a violent and horrific manner.
Fred Schepisi
Casts & Crew
Tom E. Lewis
Freddy Reynolds
Ray Barrett
Jack Thompson
Don Crosby
Angela Punch McGregor
Steve Dodd
Peter Carroll
Ruth Cracknell
Elizabeth Alexander
Peter Sumner
Tim Robertson
Ray Meagher
Brian Anderson
Jane Harders
Julie Dawson
Jack Charles
Bryan Brown
Arthur Dignam
Robyn Nevin
Gregory Apps
Jillian Archer
John Bowman
Michael Carman
Bill Charlton
Liddy Clark
Matthew Crosby
Marshall Crosby
Ian Gilmour
Ken Grant
Alan Hardy
John Jarratt
Thomas Keneally
Terry McDermott
Ray Marshall
Zac Martin
Justine Saunders
Alexandra Schepisi
Rob Steele
Richard Ussher
Mervyn Drake
Kevin Miles
Karlene Rogerson
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