Double Deal (1983 film)

Double Deal is a 1981 Australian film about a bored wife of a rich man who has an affair and becomes a thief.[4]

Double Deal
Directed byBrian Kavanagh
Written byBrian Kavanagh
StarringLouis Jourdan
Angela Punch McGregor
Warwick Comber
Diane Craig
Bruce Spence
Kerry Walker
Music byBruce Smeaton
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Release date
  • 1983 (1983)
CountryAustralia
LanguageEnglish
BudgetAU$1 million[1][2]
Box officeAU$3,731 (Australia)[3]

Angela Punch McGregor later said she was "amazed" to be offered the role of a model but accepted the part because she had not worked for a while.

I feared that if I didn't do it I would go down the plug hole The role was a mistake; the film was a mistake. But I didn't know that at the time. Brian Kavanagh turned out to be one of the most sensitive directors to actors that I have ever come across, but I don't think he should write his own scripts.[5]

The film was made without government investment.[6]

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Plot

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Peter and Christine Sterling have an uneventful marriage. When a stranger comes into their lives, Christine is intrigued, and the two begin an affair. Things escalate and the two philanderers soon plot to rob Peter of a precious gemstone.

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  1. ^ Geoff Gardner, "Double Deal", Australian Film 1978–1992, Oxford Uni Press, 1993 p124
  2. ^ "Double tribute to Angela". The Australian Women's Weekly. 17 June 1981. p. 143 Supplement: TV & ENTERTAINMENT WORLD. Retrieved 21 September 2015 – via National Library of Australia.
  3. ^ "Australian Films at the Australian Box Office", Film Victoria Archived 9 February 2014 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved 24 October 2009
  4. ^ David Stratton, The Avocado Plantation: Boom and Bust in the Australian Film Industry, Pan MacMillan, 1990 p90
  5. ^ Jim Schembri, "Angela Punch McGregor", Cinema Papers, December 1984 p 421
  6. ^ "Double tribute to Angela". The Australian Women's Weekly. 17 June 1981. p. 143 Supplement: TV & ENTERTAINMENT WORLD. Retrieved 14 July 2013 – via National Library of Australia.
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