Sleeping Dogs (1977)

Film details

Featuring

Melissa Donaldson Sam Neill Bernard Kearns
Country

New Zealand
Year

1977
Genres

Crime Thriller
Type

Film
Category

Fiction

Synopsis

Mounting pressures on Smith force him to leave the city and go to a deserted island. He is hounded by the government's elite military force and wrongly jailed for political subversion and the possession of an arms cache.

Cast & Credits

Cast
- - Melissa
    
    Melissa Donaldson
  - Smith
    
    Sam Neill
  - Prime Minister
    
    Bernard Kearns
  - reporter
    
    Raf Irving
  - Cass
    
    Cass Donaldson
  - Gloria
    
    Nevan Rowe
  - Bullen
    
    Ian Mune
  - Taupiri
    
    Don Selwyn
  - Dudley
    
    Ian Watkin
  - old Maori
    
    Tommy Tinirau
  - Cousins
    
    Bill Johnson
  - assassin leader
    
    Roger Oakley
  - Jesperson
    
    Clyde Scott
  - Gloria's mother
    
    Dorothy Mckegg
  - Gloria's father
    
    Tony Groser
  - man at wharf
    
    Bernard Moody
  - Elsie
    
    Davina Whitehouse
  - Burton
    
    Bill Juliff
  - Willoughby
    
    Warren Oates
Credits
- Unknown:
  - Director
    
    Roger Donaldson
  - Production Company
    
    Aardvark Films
  - Producer
    
    Roger Donaldson
  - Script
    
    Ian Mune
  - Script
    
    Arthur Baysting
  - Original story
    
    Karl Stead
  - Photography
    
    Michael Seresin
  - Editor
    
    Ian John
  - Assistant Editor
    
    Stewart Main
  - Music
    
    Murray Grindlay
  - Music
    
    David Calder
  - Music
    
    Mathew Brown

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