Pallet on the Floor
Pallet on the Floor is a 1986 New Zealand made dramacomedy, based on the final novel by Ronald Hugh Morrieson. Shot in 1983 at Patea, partly in a closeddown abattoir, the film was given limited release in New Zealand three years later.
The focus of the plot was shifted to the character of the British remittance man in the hope that Peter OToole would take the role. This did not occur. While billed as comedy, the film depicts 1960s racism and class divisions, and maintains Morriesons trademark preoccupations .... of sex, death, mateship, voyeurism, violence, booze and mayhem in bleak small town New Zealand.Life was hard enough for Sam Jamieson without Jack Voots lechery and Miriam Breens jealousy. Then life at Kurikino erupted into a sensation of murder and blackmail, turning his life into a nightmare from which the efforts of Tinny Entwistle, Gigglejuice Saunders and the Remittance Man could not save him. But Spud McGhee had an idea .... . Sam never gets round to working on his cottage, he goes to the Brian Boru the only hotel in Kurikino, run by Amos Blennerhasset. Wife Sue is pregnant. Sam works at the big slaughterhouse across the bridge at the foot of the hill known as the Works. ........
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