Fast Talking
1984 film by Ken Cameron
Fast Talking is a 1984 Australian film written and directed by Ken Cameron. It starred Rod Zuanic and Steve Bisley and Tracy Mann.
Cast
Rod Zuanic as Steve Carson
Toni Allaylis as Vicki
Christopher Truswell as Moose
Gail Sweeney as Narelle
Steve Bisley as Redback
Peter Hehir as Ralph Carson
Tracy Mann as Sharon Hart
Denis Moore as Yates
Julie McGregor as Steve's mother
Gary Cook as Al Carson
Antoinette Byron as Cashier
Lucky Grills as Detective Holloway
Alastair Duncan as School Inspector
Production
Cameron had been a school teacher before he became a filmmaker and the script was based on his personal experiences:
I think I was playing around with an idea of a Ginger Meggs, Junior Ned Kelly, character who was in a state of flight and rebellion from, I suppose, his school as prison. It's a strange work in the sense that it's never really resolved, his story. He remains on the run at the end just as he was at the beginning. I guess that comes from 400 Blows. I think I was very influenced by 400 Blows, by Ken Loach's work. It was an amalgam of all those things. I think at that stage in my career I was trying to graft the things that had influenced me onto the things that I saw in my own world.
He wrote the first draft at a time when he did not think film Monkey Grip would get made.
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