The Picture Show Man
"You haven't been to the movies until you've seen..."
A man, his son and a piano player travel around Australia showing the first silent movies
"You haven't been to the movies until you've seen..."
A man, his son and a piano player travel around Australia showing the first silent movies
John Meillon
Maurice 'Pop' Pym
Rod Taylor
Palmer
John Ewart
Freddie Graves
Judy Morris
Miss Lockhart
Garry McDonald
Lou
Harold Hopkins
Larry
Jeanie Drynan
Mrs Duncan
Sally Conabere
Lucy
Patrick Cargill
Fitzwilliam
A man, his son and a piano player travel around Australia showing the first silent movies
Pianist David Helfgott, driven by his father and teachers, has a breakdown. Years later he returns to the piano, to popular if not critical acclaim.
A young boy travels across Australia with his father, who's wanted by the law.
A wheelchair-bound singer and her best friend embark on a roadtrip to Memphis.
The son of a courtesan retreats into a fantasy world after being forced to end his relationship with the older woman who educated him in the ways of love.
Cissy, Reggie, and Wilf are in a home for retired musicians. Every year, there is a concert to celebrate Composer Giuseppe Verdi's birthday and they take part. Jean, who used to be married to Reggie, arrives at the home and disrupts their equilibrium. She still acts like a diva, but she refuses to sing. Still, the show must go on, and it does.
An aspiring musician struggling with schizophrenia falls for a mysterious woman who may be all in his head. When she suddenly vanishes, he takes off on a cross-country journey across Australia to find her, forcing his long-suffering brother to chase after him.
To ensure a full profitable season, circus manager Brad Braden engages The Great Sebastian, though this moves his girlfriend Holly from her hard-won center trapeze spot. Holly and Sebastian begin a dangerous one-upmanship duel in the ring, while he pursues her on the ground.
Frank Farrelli takes on the job as a middle man in the God-forsaken town of Karmack, USA, a community in a depression so deep that they need a middle man to professionally communicate more of the bad news.