Trial runs of the stunt with the Land Rover, during which Bond escapes by parachute from the tumbling vehicle, were filmed in the Mojave Desert, although the final cut of the film uses a shot achieved using a dummy.
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An uncredited Sandy Gore dubbed actress Natalie Bate who portrayed Pat Denton.
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The final half day of principal photography was on the last Saturday in September 1986 and star Colin Friels and co-writer / co-director Bruce Myles wanted to get it done because they were going to the VFL Grand Final between Carlton and Hawthorn the latter of whom won the match which was lucky for the duo as that was the Australian Rules football team they supported.
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''It was a very easy script to write, because we had a very strong idea about the story. A contemporary story about the Maralinga nuclear test, and we knew what our position would be on the subject. We worked out the storyline very quickly, because it all fell together. The characters in the film were based on a great deal of research,'' co-director Michael Pattinson once said about the writing and development of the film's screenplay.
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According to the book 'Burnum Burnum: A Warrior for Peace' (1999) by Marlene Norst, the film was specially broadcast on indigenous Australian television station 'Imparja' as a special tribute to indigenous Australian actor 'Burnum Burnum' after his passing away in 1997.
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The closing credits state that ''atomic test photographs reproduced with permission of the British Ministry of Defence, AWRE Aldermaston.'' The acronym AWRE stands for the Atomic Weapons Research Establishment who were the British government body who conducted the actual atom bomb testing in Australia during the 1950s and 1960s.
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According to the 'Starring the Computer' website, makes and models of computers seen in the film include a Commodore 64 and a Sony SMC-70G.
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Third theatrical feature film directed by Michael Pattinson. Pattinson's first two movies, Moving Out (1983) and Street Hero (1984), both starred Vince Colosimo.
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About exactly twenty years later the movie's two top billed lead cast, Colin Friels and Jack Thompson, both appeared in the television mini-series 'Bastard Boys' (2007).
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Michael Pattinson, one of the film's two co-directors, had previously directed the movie's other co-director, actor Bruce Myles, in the 'Winners' series tele-movie 'Just Friends' (1985), which was also written by this film's co-screenwriter Jan Sardi.
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When this movie thriller based on the British nuclear tests at Maralinga was about to go into production, the McClelland Royal Commission investigating the British nuclear tests at Maralinga was still going.
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The production shoot for this film went for eight weeks.
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The bush and outback locations were filmed in the environs of Coober Pedy in far northern South Australia which to the chagrin of the production became unusually less arid and much more greener after the location recce to survey the Australian desert locales.
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The movie did not utilize the services of a casting director to cast the parts in the film. Instead, actor and co-director Bruce Myles, who had many thespian contacts in the film and theatre worlds in Australia, co-ordinated the casting of the movie roles.
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First and only ever theatrical feature film directed by actor Bruce Myles.
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Real life British atomic tests used and referred to in the film included ones on the Montebello Islands in Western Australia as part of Operation Hurricane and 'Taranaki' (1957) on the Maralinga Range in South Australia as part of Operation Antler as well as 'Totem 1' as part of Operation Totem on Emu Field in the Great Victoria Desert of South Australia. The latter was especially used because the bombing involved 'wind change' which was a visual and dramatic plot point for the picture.
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Star Jack Thompson prepared for his part as Trebilcock by meeting with ASIO (Australian Security Intelligence Organisation) intelligence agents and researching the background to these roles.
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Scenes featuring a real film laboratory with real film lab equipment were shot at a an actual film laboratory which was Cinevex in Melbourne.
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