Crosstalk (film)

Crosstalk is a 1982 science fiction thriller film made in Australia and produced by the New South Wales Film Corporation.

In 1979 Keith Salvat, who had made the film Private Collection 1972, wrote a script inspired by Rear Window 1954 called High Rise, about a man trapped in a high rise building because of an injury. He received from development money from the New South Wales Film Corporation and wrote early drafts with the assistance of Byron Kennedy. Then Ross Matthews became involved as producer, and the NSWFC agreed to finance the entire movie themselves under the title Wall to Wall...Just before filming commenced Ross Matthews got another film funded, Hoodwink 1981 and so brought in Errol Sullivan as coproducer. Filming began in 1981 and was marked by difficulties and tensions, particularly between Sullivan and Salvat. Salvat shot fordays, then onMay 1981 Sullivan and Matthews fired Salvat and replaced him with first assistant director Mark Egerton. Production was shut down for a week while Egerton and Denis Whitburn rewrote the script. Among the changes made were a new opening sequence and removing most of the exteriors so more scenes could be shot in the one set. ........

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