Frenchman's Farm

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R</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Director............Ron Way</B></div> <div> <B>Screenplay......William Russell, James Fishburn, Ron Way & Matt White</B></div> <div> <B>Music...............Tommy Tycho M.B.E.</B></div> <div> <B>Producers........James Fishburn & Matt White</B></div> <div> <B>Executive Producer....Colson Worner</B></div> <div> <B>Special Effects by Peter Shoesmith</B></div> <bR> <div> <B><U>Dramatis Personae</U></B></div> <div> <B>Barry.......................Ray Barrett (</B><I><B>Rebel, Where the Green Ants Dream</B></I><B>)</B></div> <div> <B>Barry Nordon..........David Reyne</B></div> <div> <B>Jackie....................Tracey Tainish</B></div> <div> <B>John Hatcher..........Phil Brock (</B><I><B>Dollman vs Demonic Toys</B></I><B>)</B></div> <div> <B>John Mainsbridge..Andrew Blackman</B></div> <div> <B>William Morris.......Andrew Johnson</B></div> <div> <B>Mrs. Grenville........</B><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#FF0033" FACE="Arial" ><B>Jennifer Flowers</B></FONT><B> (</B><I><B>Hardcopy</B></I><B>-TV)</B></div> <div> <B>George Slater........Kym Lynch</B></div> <div> <B>Mme. Cheveraux...Lynne Schofield</B></div> <div> <B>                 Norman Kaye( </B><I><B>Turtle Beach, Where the Green Ants Dream</B></I><B>)                  </B></div> <div> <B>                 John Meillon (</B><I><B>Cars That Eat People,Crocodile Dundee & II</B></I><B>)         </B></div> <bR> <div> <B><U>Critique</U></B><B>: This is a film that can pass if not as family entertainment (the brief nudity and sexual situations are quite innocuous, but the theme of beheadings could be disturbing to the thin skinned) at least as appealing to a non-horror audience. The acting is quite strong all the way through, members of the Australian cast have played with German director Werner Herzog (Where the Green Ants Dream), and the script is generally well written. Like Celia, this piece requires some patience. Although the pace will drive away some audiences, the story is fairly engrossing--though Jackie's trip through time, even in the terms of the movie, is obscure. The murdering ghost may not be particularly frightening, but he certainly keeps us on our toes. A legitimate complaint could be that the entire set of scenes of the police uncovering the mystery never connects with the central characters. </B></div> <bR> <div> <B><U>Plot Summary</U></B><B>: Fires are ravaging Australia. Jackie drives on toward Brisbane, avoiding the fires. She gets some odd radio reports about fighting with the Japanese. As she watches, the car clock spins wildly. She sits dazed for a moment on an old bridge, and then drives on. Her car finally runs out of water and she goes to fetch some at a local farm. When she sees a newspaper with the date February 1944, she is simply baffled. Things get still worse, however, when the next thing she sees is a man murdering another in a field, and begins burying the body. The killer limps after her and the chase is on. She escapes the farm, but is still having car trouble. After a moment, the car is working again and she reaches a phone, calls her boyfriend and is soon home. Strangely, the police find no evidence of a murder or any digging. When Jackie looks in the library, she finds records of precisely the same newspaper she thought she'd seen and records of a decapitated body of a soldier, Slater, that had been found. She finds that the wrong man had been arrested. Her inquiries bring up a flag at the police station, her boyfriend Barry Norden is skeptical about her story, explaining it as too much sun. it's hard to see how too much sun could have caused the gash on the car where the murderer had almost gotten her. Joe Hatcher, the brother of the man charged with murder, had been in prison camp with Slater. The next day they go to the farm and find it's overgrown. However, she finds her hat and container there. There they find a man Benson lying drunk in one of the bedrooms. Sgt. Hawk died in 1972--apparently drowned but with extensive head wounds. They go to a local minister-historian Reverend Oldeshak who takes them to the Hatcher vault. He tells them about John Hatcher's ghost--and the sightings over the last century. The ghost is supposed to watch over a fortune. The minister doesn't disbelieve. All these deaths took place on February 29. Barry noticed that Arthur's crypt is not locked, and  goes back that night to see what's inside. When he gets there, there is someone else in the crypt with a very familiar axe. John Hatcher had been wounded in the leg while fighting in Napoleon's army. Hmm...They see a picture of the old Hatcher farm, and Jackie notices that it looks different. They infer that the farm has been moved and Slater had been digging for the old foundation. They begin to wonder what he was digging for. Hatcher had been entrusted with a stock of Napoleon's gold. The current owner of Frenchman's farm, Bensen, says an old tramp can often be seen hobbling about among the trees. They decide to dig for the old foundation, and as they do, an apparition, the killer of forty years ago, watches. The police turn up a document of a Napoleonic order for an execution for robbing the military. General Houcher had signed it. It's a mystery how it came to be associated with the Slater murder file. Just when Jackie has given up, Barry turns up the foundation. They turn up a box and pry it open to find a fortune in gold soverns. That night, Jackie sees a photo of John Hatcher and realizes that he's the man who murdered Slater. Jackie dreams of Hatcher guillotining person after person, including Barry. After waking, in a trance-like state, Jackie goes and fetches the gold box and heads out into the rain. The next morning, Barry finds that Jackie's gone. The police have meanwhile uncovered a cycle of murders, and one will take place on this day--will they get there in time to stop it?</B></div> </td> </tr></table></body>