John Stanton
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Birthday: October 28, 1944
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Gender: Male
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Tai-Pan
Overview: The film begins following the British victory of the first Opium War and the seizure of Hong Kong. Although the island is largely uninhabited and the terrain unfriendly, it has a large port that both the British government and various trading companies believe will be useful for the import of merchandise to be traded on mainland China, a highly lucrative market.
Genres: Adventure Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-11-07
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Phar Lap
Overview: Phar Lap, the big bold chestnut reigned as the king of the turf in the depression that gripped Australia of the 1930s. From his humble beginnings the New Zealand bred horse raced on to become the hero of a nation.
Genres: Drama Family History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-08-11
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Touring Australia
Overview: A film dedicated to Australia and travel around it.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-06-08
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Dusty
Overview: The eponymous Dusty is an appropriately named dingo, or wild dog. Roaming the fertile fields of Australia, Dusty is captured as a puppy. Though dingoes are normally averse to human companionship, Dusty attaches himself to an old, worn-out shepherd, played by Bill Kerr. The dog gives Kerr a reason for living, and vice versa. Be sure to have plenty of Kleenex handy for some of the mistier passages of Dusty.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-04-21
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The Naked Country
Overview: Far North Queensland, 1955. Deep in the untamed frontier tough rancher Lance Dillon and his sensual, but bored wife, battle inhospitable nature to eke out a living from their cattle herd. When the aborigines kill the Dillon's prize bull a chase begins that will culminate in bloody tragedy with Lance pitted against Mandaru - an aborigine struggling to maintain his cultural way of life
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-07-25
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Anzacs: In the Face of War
Overview: Archive footage of Australia and New Zealand forces during WW1, WW2 and the Vietnam conflict. Plus home life between the wars, especially focusing on the homage we pay to those who so bravely sacrificed themselves on our behalf. This is all held together by a wonderful script narrated by John Stanton.
Genres: Documentary War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-07-14
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Vacant Possession
Overview: Following the death of her mother Tessa (Pamela Rabe), a young woman, returns after many years to the weather-beaten family home on the shores of Sydney's Botany Bay. But the old family home begins to bring old wounds more and more to life. The story unfolds through flashbacks yet as it progresses the flashbacks merge into the present as it becomes apparent that the situation Tessa has returned to is very much the result of that which passed before.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-05-23
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Darkness Falls
Overview: A vengeful spirit has taken the form of the Tooth Fairy to exact vengeance on the town that lynched her 150 years earlier. Her only opposition is the only child, now grown up, who has survived her before.
Genres: Thriller Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-01-24
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Beneath Hill 60
Overview: The true story of Australia's cat-and-mouse underground mine warfare—one of the most misunderstood, misrepresented and mystifying conflicts of WW I. It was secret struggle BENEATH the Western Front that combined daring engineering, technology and science. Few on the surface knew of the brave, claustrophobic and sometimes barbaric work of these tunnellers.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-04-15
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Strike of the Panther
Overview: Jason Blade is a man who can't bring himself to commit fully to his woman, and who spends all his time with a special crime task force taking on assignments to fight crime and right wrong do-ers. When his love is kidnapped by his arch-enemy the race is on to get into the power station where she is being held and battle an army of ninjas. Only then can he face Baxter, his arch-enemy, and stop a bomb from exploding to save his sweetheart, and show her that he is a man. A man who can commit. A man who is strong.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-01-04
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Reprisal
Overview: Sixteen years after returning home, three disillusioned Australian Vietnam conscripts use their army skills to plan and execute the country's biggest bank robbery. And they get away with it. Seven years pass and a petty criminal convicted as the driver in the heist is released from gaol. When his body is fished out of the harbour the grim murder reignites the case.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-01-01
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Great Expectations: The Untold Story
Overview: A humble orphan suddenly becomes a gentleman with the help of an unknown benefactor.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-02-07
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Rent-a-Cop
Overview: Detective Tony Church is forced to retire and become a store rent-a-cop when his drug sting operation comes to a tragic end by a masked killer. He joins forces with a prostitute, the only one able to identify the killer, to bring him to justice.
Genres: Comedy Crime Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-11-28
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Day of the Panther
Overview: A martial-arts expert goes after a criminal gang and its boss, who were responsible for the death of his partner.
Genres: Action
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1988-06-30
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The BBQ
Overview: Dazza's passion in life is barbecuing, but unfortunately he accidentally gives his neighbours food poisoning. To make amends, he receives tutelage from a Scottish chef, and together they enter an international barbecue competition.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-01-25
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Miss Fisher and the Crypt of Tears
Overview: After freeing a young Bedouin girl from her unjust imprisonment in Jerusalem, an Australian adventuress, together with her devoted police detective friend, begins to unravel a decade-old mystery concerning priceless emeralds, an ancient curse and the disappearance of the girl's mother and massacre of her tribe.
Genres: Drama Adventure Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-02-27
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Big Brother of Christmas Island
Overview: Twenty years ago, a hard-drinking, fiery British immigrant called Gordon Bennett, came to the remote Australian territory of Christmas Island to become General Secretary of the Union of Christmas Island Workers. By the time he died in 1991, he was known as 'Tai Ko Seng' which, roughly translated, means "big brother who delivers". Every year since his death, people gather on 30 July at the Island's Chinese cemetery, to pay tribute to Bennett as they would to their honoured ancestors. Big Brother of Christmas Island tells the moving story of how the legend of the "Tai Ko Seng" was born.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-01-01
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Kitty and the Bagman
Overview: Notorious Australian flop set in the Roaring 20s Sydney follows Kitty O'Rourke who, after her thug husband ends up in jail, becomes a tough gangster on her own, befriends a crooked cop called The Bagman and takes on the competition.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-02-18
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