Jack and Jill: A Postscript
1970 film by Phillip Adams
Jack and Jill: A Postscript is a 1970 Australian film.
Plot
Jill, a kindergarten teacher who lives with her parents, meets Jack, a biker. The two fall in love but are unable to reconcile their differences, with tragic results.
Cast
Anthony Ward as Jack Anderson
Judy Leech attas Gillian O'Keefe
Lindsay How as Christopher
Stanley Randall as Stan
Jean Higgs as Mrs Whelan
Phyllis Freeman as Mrs O'Keefe
Alan Higgs as Mr O'Keefe
Gerry Humphries as Gerry
Bob Cornish as television announcer
Gordon Rumph as minister
Sylvia Threlfall as minister's wife
Ray Watts as the singer
Production
The script was originally devised in 1964 as a series of sketches where nursery rhymes provided commentary on modern suburbia. It took several years to film and shooting finished in mid 1969.
Release
The film won a silver award at the 1969 Australian Film Awards and screened at a number of festivals. It was released commercially by Columbia Pictures.
Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Jack and Jill: A Postscript” is 1970 film by Phillip Adams. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Jack, Jill and Postscript, not as a finished interpretation.
Why this record matters
The phrase “1970 film by Phillip Adams” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.
Reception evidence should be dated and situated: later canonical status may differ sharply from the work’s initial circulation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 28, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q12125196. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1970, 1964 and 1969.
Titles can refer to several editions, objects or performances, making precise identification essential before interpretation. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.
How to read it
Separate the work, its editions or performances, and its later reception. Catalogue records, publication histories and object files often preserve different parts of that story.
- Identifying works and editions
- Tracing reception history
- Finding collection records
The original object or edition, catalogue raisonné, performance record, rights file and holding institution.
Three-step research path
- Establish the record: confirm the title “Jack and Jill: A Postscript”, its source revision and the description used here.
- Expand the search: follow Jack and Jill: A Postscript primary sources, Jack and Jill: A Postscript archive and Jack research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
- Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.
Questions for further research
- Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Jack and Jill: A Postscript”?
- Which edition, object, performance or recording is being described?
- Where is authorship, date or provenance documented?
Search terms from this dossier
This entry incorporates text from “Jack and Jill: A Postscript” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.