Flashpoint (1972 film)

Flashpoint is a 1972 Australian film.

Film Australia were inspired to make further drama productions following the success of Three to Go 1970. They originally planned to make two films with common characters and opening scenes about the separate experiences of a father and son the father would be a tradesman cop gin with unemployment at middle age while the son faces a new job. The film about the father, written by Frank Moorhouse, was abandoned but the other film became Flashpoint.Filming took place in the mining town of Mount Newman. Brian Hannant spent several weeks working among mining crews incognito, then developing a script with Frank Hardy and, later, British TV writer Harold Lander. ........

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