Harbour Beat is a 1990 Scottish-Australian film which marked the directorial debut of David Elfick.[2]

Harbour Beat
Directed byDavid Elfick
Written byMorris Gleitzman
Based onoriginal idea by David Elfick
Produced byDavid Elfick
Irene Dobson
StarringJohn Hannah
Steve Vidler
Gary Day
Emily Simpson
CinematographyEllery Ryan
Production
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Palm Beach Pictures
Zenith
Australian Film Finance Corporation
Distributed byNetwork 7
Release date
  • 24 October 1990 (1990-10-24) (TV)
Running time
99 minutes
CountryAustralia
LanguageEnglish
Budget$3.3 million[1]

Cast

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Premise

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Glasgow cop Neal McBride teams up with Australian cop Lancelot Cooper.

Production

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$1.4 million of the budget came from the Film Finance Corporation.[3]

Release

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The film was never released theatrically and debuted directly on television.

References

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  1. ^ Ed. Scott Murray, Australia on the Small Screen 1970-1995, Oxford Uni Press, 1996 p. 77
  2. ^ David Stratton, The Avocado Plantation: Boom and Bust in the Australian Film Industry, Pan MacMillan, 1990 pp. 244–245
  3. ^ Helen Barlow, "The Australian Film Finance Corporation", Cinema Papers, August 1991 pp. 36–37
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