The City's Edge Explained

The City's Edge
Director:	Ken Quinnell
Producer:	Pom Oliver Errol Sullivan
Based On:	novel The Running Man by W. A. Harbinson
Starring:	Tommy Lewis Hugo Weaving Katrina Foster Mark Lee
Music:	Chris Neal
Studio:	CB Films Production
Runtime:	86 minutes
Country:	Australia
Language:	English

The City's Edge is a 1983 Australian film co-written by Aboriginal Australian writer Bob Merritt.^[1]

Plot

Andy comes to Sydney and falls in love with the sister of a heroin addict.

Cast

• Tommy Lewis
• Hugo Weaving as Andy White
• Katrina Foster
• Mark Lee as Jim Wentworth
• Joanne Samuel as Prostitute 1

Production

The film was originally entitled Running Man and was never released theatrically in Australia although it was in the UK.^[2]

Merritt later claimed he preferred to "write off" the experience but says it gave him the track record to make Short Changed (1985).^[3]

Notes and References

1. Ed. Scott Murray, Australia on the Small Screen 1970-1995, Oxford Uni Press, 1996 p. 26
2. David Stratton, The Avocado Plantation: Boom and Bust in the Australian Film Industry, Pan MacMillan, 1990 p. 205
3. Mary Colbert, "Positive action: Bob Merritt, playwright and screenwriter", Cinema Papers, May 1985 p. 24