Backroads

• 5.9 Action
• 1977-06-27
• 61 minutes mins

Two strangers – one white, one black – steal a car in western NSW and head for the coast. Jack is abrasive, cunning and disparaging about Aborigines. Gary doesn’t really care – he just wants to escape. En route, they pick up Gary’s Uncle Joe, a French hitchhiker and a young woman who’s running away. Their petty crimes escalate as they go, heading towards disaster.

Starring:

Bill Hunter (Jack) Gary Foley (Gary) Zac Martin (Joe) Terry Camilleri (Jean Claude) Julie McGregor (Anna) Essie Coffey (Aboriginal Woman) Allan Penney (Shopkeeper)

Director:

Phillip Noyce

Writer:

No writer found.