12 Dec 1993
In the Name of the Father
A small-time Belfast thief, Gerry Conlon, is wrongly convicted of an IRA bombing in London, along with his father and friends, and spends 15 years in prison fighting to prove his innocence.
Stir
Hated... Desperate... Brutalised... ...They can't stop now!
Filmed in the Clare Valley, Gladstone and the Flinders Ranges in South Australia, this prison movie was inspired by the true life prison riot at Bathurst Jail in 1974 and its subsequent Royal Commission into New South Wales Prisons.
Top Billed Cast
Bryan Brown China Jackson
Max Phipps Norton
Dennis Miller Redford
Gary Waddell Dave
Phil Motherwell Alby
Michael Gow Andrew
Edward Robshaw Partidge
Tex Morton The Govenor (as Robert 'Tex' Morton)
Ray Marshall Chalmers
Syd Heylen Old Bob
Paul Sonkkila McIntosh
Robert Noble Riley
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