Kodak/Atlab Cinema Collection

Len (Bryan Brown) and Barbara (Kris McQuade)

The Love Letters From Teralba Road (1977)

A new 16mm print of this film is now available on request. Courtesy of Richard Brennan and Kodak (Australasia) and Atlab Australia

National Film and Sound Archive National Collection
Title Number 282456.

Classification: Not classified, use PG rating

Comments about the making of the film from the director, Stephen Wallace

Synopsis

Len works as a storeman in the industrial city of Newcastle, NSW. In a drunken jealous rage he beats his wife, Barbara, who leaves him and returns to her family in Sydney. Len writes several emotional letters asking her to forgive him and take him back.

Background

The film was based on letters that the director, Stephen Wallace, had found in an old house in Sydney. Made on a low budget of $25,000 with financial assistance from the Creative Development Branch of the Australian Film Commission.

The film won the Gold Award for Short Fiction Film, Special Award for Creativity and the Kodak Silver Award for Photography at the Australian Film Awards in 1977. It also won the Short Fiction Gold Award at the 1977 Australian Film Institute Awards.

Director
Stephen Wallace

Year of Production 1977
Duration 50 minutes
Format 16mm Colour
Optical Soundtrack Mono

Producer
Richard Brennan

Screenplay
Stephen Wallace

Director of Photography
Tom Cowan

Editor
Henry Dangar

Sound Recordist
Lawrie Fitzgerald

Music
Ralph Schneider

Cast
Bryan Brown (Len)
Kris McQuade (Barbara)
Gia Carides (Maureen)
Joy Hruby (Len's mother)
Kevin Leslie (Barbara's father)