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Newsfront
Sign in to saveNewsfront is a 1978 Australian drama film directed by Phillip Noyce, and starring Bill Hunter, Wendy Hughes, Chris Haywood and Bryan Brown. The screenplay is written by David Elfick, Bob Ellis, Philippe Mora, and Noyce. The original music score is composed by William Motzing. Shot on location in Sydney, Australia, the film is shot in black and white, and colour, incorporating actual newsreel footage.
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5.5Two brothers working as news cameramen for competing companies in '50s Australia find their lives dramatically affected by the constantly changing times in which they live.
Cast
- Bill Hunter as Len Maguire
- Wendy Hughes as Amy Mackenzie
- Gerard Kennedy as Frank Maguire
- Chris Haywood as Chris Hewitt
- John Ewart as Charlie
- Don Crosby as A.G. Marwood
Themes
- news reporter
- 1940s
- 1950s
- early television
- brother brother relationship
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- publication date
- 1978-07-29
- title
- Newsfront
- box office
- 1576000
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Newsfront is a 1978 Australian drama film directed by Phillip Noyce, and starring Bill Hunter, Wendy Hughes, Chris Haywood and Bryan Brown. The screenplay is written by David Elfick, Bob Ellis, Philippe Mora, and Noyce. The original music score is composed by William Motzing. Shot on location in Sydney, Australia, the film is shot in black and white, and colour, incorporating actual newsreel footage.
==Plot summary== Newsfront is about newsreel cameramen and production staff who are committed to finding compelling footage of newsworthy events. The film begins in 1948 and ends in 1956, when television was introduced to Australia, tracking the destinies of two brothers, their adventures and misadventures placed in the context of sweeping social and political changes in their native Australia as well as natural disasters. Len Maguire is constitutionally resistant to change, while his younger brother Frank Maguire welcomes any alterations in his own life and in the world around him.