Kodak/Atlab Cinema Collection

A new 35mm print of the feature film, GOODBYE PARADISE, is now available. Courtesy of the New South Wales Film and Television Office (FTO) and the sponsors Kodak (Australasia) and Atlab Australia

Goodbye Paradise (1982)

GOODBYE PARADISE (1982)
Classification: M rating

Director: Carl Schultz

Year of Production: 1981

Duration: 119 minutes
Format: 35mm, Colour. Mono-optical soundtrack.

Production Company: Petersham Productions in association with the NSW Film Corporation
Producer: Jane Scott
Screenplay: Bob Ellis, Denny Lawrence
Director of Photography: John Seale
Production Designer: George Liddle
Editor: Richard Francis-Bruce
Music: Peter Best
Sound: Syd Butterworth

Cast: Ray Barrett (Michael Stacey), Robyn Nevin (Kate), Janet Scrivener (Cathy), Kate Fitzpatrick (Mrs McCredie), Robert 'Tex" Morton (Sir Ted Godfrey), Don Pascoe (Les McCredie), John Clayton (Todd), Guy Doleman (Quiney), Lex Marinos (Con), Paul Chubb (Curly).

Synopsis

A black comedy about an alcoholic ex-cop, Michael Stacey, who has written a book exposing the Queensland police force, but his publisher, has it stopped. Stacey is then hired to search for an ex-colleague's missing daughter, Cathy, taking him on a journey through the superficial excess of a decadent society. With social and ethic values considered old-fashioned in a changing society, Stacey stumbles through a world where the old come to die expensively in the sun and the youth are corrupted by the pressure of drugs and prostitution. On the way he discovers a military coup, a revolutionary plot to the benefit of Americans, to drill for oil in the Barrier Reef and Asians to exploit people and the land.

Background

Think hard-boiled detective novel set on the Gold Coast. Filmed on location in Surfers Paradise, Queensland, on a budget of $1.1 million.

Ray Barrett's performance has been highly praised by the critics and he deservedly won Best Actor at the Australian Film Institute Awards in 1982. Also won Best Original Screenplay.

Preservation

The 35mm interdupe and sound negative were recently acquired from the NSWFTO and are now preserved in the National Collection at the National Film and Sound Archive. No 35mm release prints existed. The new 35mm print will be processed from these components.