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Backroads

Name: Backroads
Genre: Action, Drama
Released: 1977-06-27
Duration: 61 min
Rating: 5.9

Not Rated

ActionDrama

5.9/10(8 ratings)

Two strangers – one white, one black – steal a car in western NSW and head for the coast. Jack is abrasive, cunning and disparaging about Aborigines. Gary doesn’t really care – he just wants to escape. En route, they pick up Gary’s Uncle Joe, a French hitchhiker and a young woman who’s running away. Their petty crimes escalate as they go, heading towards disaster.

06-27-1977

1h 1m

Main Cast

Bill Hunter

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. William John "Bill" Hunter (27 February 1940 – 21 May 2011) was an Australian actor of film, stage and television. He appeared in more than 60 films and won two Australian Film Institute Awards. Description above from the Wikipedia article Bill Hunter (actor), licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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