Blood Money

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Christopher Fitchett, 62 mins, Australia, 1980, 16mm. Source: National Film and Sound Archive. Courtesy: Christopher Fitchett.

Blood Money

Blood Money draws heavily from the well-heeled crime genre, embracing all its pulpy glory as its taut story of familial bonds and crims-with-a-code unfolds.

Local legend John Flaus stars as the ageing crim who re-enters the criminal underworld only to find its rules and values have changed for the worse.

Along for the ride is laconic Aussie icon Bryan Brown to bring to life a screenplay which is co-written by John Ruane (who went on to make local crime classic, Death in Brunswick).

30th anniversary screening.

"Blood Money is soaked in cinema history and does not hide the fact. It consciously and conspicuously places itself within a narrative tradition that most 'official' Australian filmmakers like to pretend does not exist - and their films are the poorer for it." Cinema Papers