Backroads (film)

Backroads is a 1977 Australian film directed by Phillip Noyce. Two strangers one white Jack, one black Gary steal a car in western New South Wales and drive around the coast. The original characters came from a story by Adelaide writer John Emery, with whom Noyce had worked on a short film. Australian reviews of the film were mixed, and it opened commercially in only one cinema.

John Emery had written once of Noyces short films at film school, Caravan Park and pitched him another story, The First Day of Spring about a young aboriginal. They developed the script together.The film was shot on location near Bourke and Brewarrina in western New South Wales and was funded in part by a 25,000 grant from the Creative Development Branch of the Australian Film Commission. Shooting finished in April 1977. ........

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