
Backroads
1977
5.9
Overview:
Two strangers – one white, one black – steal a car in western NSW and head for the coast. Jack is abrasive, cunning and disparaging about Aborigines. Gary doesn’t really care – he just wants to escape. En route, they pick up Gary’s Uncle Joe, a French hitchhiker and a young woman who’s running away. Their petty crimes escalate as they go, heading towards disaster.
Phillip Noyce
Director, Producer, Writer
Elizabeth Knight
Producer, First Assistant Director
Cast:
View full castBill Hunter
Jack
Gary Foley
Gary
Zac Martin
Joe
Terry Camilleri
Jean Claude
Julie McGregor
Anna
Essie Coffey
Aboriginal Woman