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Break of Day

Break of Day

1976Movie⏱️ 1h 52m
DramaHistoryRomanceWar
⭐ 6.4
IMDB Rating
58 votes

Tom Cooper, a married man recently returned from WWI, falls in love with an artist visiting his country town, but he has misgivings after meeting her city friends.

Director
Ken Hannam
Writers
N/A
Stars
Sara Kestelman, Andrew McFarlane, Ingrid Mason
Release Date
December 31, 1976
Language
English
Country
Australia
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Wins
🎯 4
Nominations
πŸ’¬ 3
Reviews
πŸ“½οΈ View on IMDB

🎭 Top Cast

Sara Kestelman
Sara Kestelman
as Alice
Andrew McFarlane
Andrew McFarlane
as Tom Cooper
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Ingrid Mason
as Beth
John Bell
John Bell
as Arthur
Tony Barry
Tony Barry
as Joe
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Ben Gabriel
as Evans
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Malcolm Phillips
as Robbie
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Dennis Olsen
as Roger
Geraldine Turner
Geraldine Turner
as Sandy
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Sean Myers
as David

🎬 Technical Specs

Aspect Ratio
1.85 : 1
Sound
Mono
Filming Location
Maldon, Victoria, Australia
Production
Clare Beach Films, Greater Union Organisation (GUO), Nine Network Australia

🏷️ Keywords

marriedcityloveartistman

🎯 Categories

DramaHistoryRomanceWar

⭐ Featured Review

at the dawn of good Oz films.
by ptb-8 β€’ 2005-02-15

"This is a superb Ausralian film made early in the renaissance of film making that commenced with PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK in 1975. BREAK OF DAY is from 1977 just as cinemas were recovering from the advent of colour TV which decimated attendance. It is part of a string of films exploring the past and is set around 1919. Otherfilms of the production time 1976-79 that deserve to be seen are DEVILS PLAYGROUND, NEWSFRONT, and THE GETTING OF WISDOM. This one, BREAK OF DAY, is a quiet rural film about a damaged soldier recovering from World war One. His romance with an older woman played by Sarah Keste..."

πŸ’‘ Did You Know?

This movie was filmed during April, May and June 1976.

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πŸ“– Synopsis

Tom Cooper, a married man recently returned from WWI, falls in love with an artist visiting his country town, but he has misgivings after meeting her city friends.