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Violence in the Cinema, Part 1

  • 1971
  • 20m
IMDb RATING
7.4/10
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ComedyShort

What at first seems like a serious psychological assessment of violence in the cinema by a professor or lecturer, turns into a bloody orgy of human destructiveness.What at first seems like a serious psychological assessment of violence in the cinema by a professor or lecturer, turns into a bloody orgy of human destructiveness.What at first seems like a serious psychological assessment of violence in the cinema by a professor or lecturer, turns into a bloody orgy of human destructiveness.

  • Director
    • George Miller
  • Writer
    • George Miller
  • Stars
    • Arthur Dignam
    • Victoria Anoux
    • Mallory Pettit
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  • IMDb RATING
    7.4/10
    57
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    • Director
      • George Miller
    • Writer
      • George Miller
    • Stars
      • Arthur Dignam
      • Victoria Anoux
      • Mallory Pettit
    • 1User review
    • 1Critic review
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    8BugEye

    A gory, entertaining spoof

    In the early seventies, when I saw this film, the depiction of violence on the screen was a hot media topic. Therefore the opening of this short feature took most of us in; an academic type, filmed against the background of his study, addresses the screen on the title subject. Just as we have settled down to the tedious tempo, - BANG! The study door bursts open, and a shotgun toting intruder blasts part of the speaker's head away, hurling him backwards out of his chair. It would spoil the fun if I described the rest of the increasingly blood-soaked proceedings; suffice it to say that the joke works wonderfully.

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      The academic's monologue was actually taken verbatim from a speech made publicly by Australian writer Phillip Adams only a few months earlier. Later, Adams wrote a harsh review of George Miller's Mad Max (1979), saying by way of full disclosure, "Just as Dr Miller mutilated me, I feel duty bound to return the favour".
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    • Country of origin
      • Australia
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      • Warlok Films
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