Walkabout

Walkabout (1971)

Timing: 1:35 (95 min)

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Photo 58

Actors and characters

Release date

1971-07-01

Country

United States

Production

Si Litvinoff Film Production, Max L. Raab Productions

Genre

Adventure, Drama

Budget

$1 000 000

Revenue

$0

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Director

Nicolas Roeg

Actors

Jenny Agutter, Luc Roeg, David Gulpilil, John Meillon, Robert McDarra, Peter Carver, John Illingsworth, Hilary Bamberger, Barry Donnelly, Noeline Brown
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Scenario

Edward Bond

Producer

Si Litvinoff, Max L. Raab

Operator

Nicolas Roeg

Composer

John Barry

Artist

Audition

Editing

Antony Gibbs, Alan Pattillo
All team (29)

• Luke Roeg actually burned his back before the scene where the Aboriginal boy smears his burnt skin with fat. This was not in the script, but director Nicolas Roeg saw it happening, filmed it, and inserted it into the film.
• The screenplay written by Edward Bond fit onto just 14 pages. Everything else was improvised.
• At the end of the film, the audience hears an excerpt from Alfred Edward Housman's (1859-1936) collection of poems, "A Shropshire Lad".
• At the time of filming, David Galpin did not speak English at all.
• Jenny Agutter was embarrassed to film the nude scene in the lake, so a minimal number of people were left on set, and when the scene was finished, everyone else returned to the set and, in solidarity with the actress, stripped naked and went swimming.
• At the end of the film, the viewer hears an excerpt from the poetic collection of Alfred Edward Housman (1859-1936) "A Shropshire Lad".