Gentle Strangers Explained

Gentle Strangers
Director:Cecil Holmes
Producer:Roland Beckett
Starring:Yee Choo Koo
Music:Barry Conyngham
Cinematography:Mick Bornemann
Kerry Brown
Bruce Hillyard
Don McAlpine
David Sanderson
Editing:Graham Chase
Studio:Film Australia
Runtime:58 minutes
Country:Australia
Language:English

Gentle Strangers is a 1972 Australian film directed by Cecil Holmes.

Plot

A Chinese boy and a Thai girl have a romance when they meet in a seedy boarding house in Sydney. An Indonesian student is posted to a rural research centre while his wife and child cope with life in the city.

Cast

Production

Cecil Holmes spent a year researching and writing the film, which was made for Film Australia. It was shot on 16mm with a mostly non professional cast.[1]

Release

The film was released through non commercial film libraries and screened on commercial television but did not screen in cinemas.[1]

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Notes and References

  1. Andrew Pike and Ross Cooper, Australian Film 1900–1977: A Guide to Feature Film Production, Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1998 p269