Pallet on the Floor
1986
One of Those Blighters.
Directed by Lynton Butler
User Rating
Intensity
A murderous black comedy set in the 1960s. Sam (McCauley) and his small band of hard-drinking and eccentric friends are having a night of it when a drunk truck driver, Jack (Bach), attacks Sam's Maori wife Sue (O'Brien). In the struggle, Sam and friends end up killing Jack. None of them regrets this, but it has been observed by Miriam (Gruar) who decides to blackmail Sam. Jack's brother Joe (Napier) comes looking for revenge and ends up being killed by Basil (Spence). Their jobs at the freezer works are terminated, and Basil has his own idea about how to get out of their troubles.
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- Director
- Lynton Butler
- Written by
- Lynton Butler, Martyn Sanderson
- Produced by
- Larry Parr
- Composers
- Bruno Lawrence, Jonathon Crawford
- Cinematographer
- Kevin Hayward
- Editor
- Patrick Monaghan
- Studio
- Mirage Films
- Origin countries
- New Zealand, United States
- Production country
- New Zealand
- Runtime
- 1h 28m
- Language
- English
- TMDB
- 6.5/10 (2 votes)
- IMDb
- 4.9/10 (24 votes)
Cast
Peter McCauley
Sam Jamieson
Jillian O'Brien
Sue Jamieson
Bruce Spence
Basil Beaumont-Foster
Shirley Gruar
Miriam Breen
Alistair Douglas
Stan Breen
Tony Barry
Larkman
Jeremy Stephens
Spud McGhee
Michael Wilson
Shorty Larsen
Terence Cooper
Brendon O'Keefe
John Bach
Jack Voot
Marshall Napier
Joe Voot
Curly Del Monte
Mason Voot
Peter Rowley
Henderson
Ian Watkin
Amos
Crew
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