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Division 4: The Return of John Kelso: ‘Get stuck into him’ (1971)

1971

Division 4: The Return of John Kelso: ‘Get stuck into him’ (1971)

1971

  • NFSA ID29S10AN9
  • TypeTelevision
  • MediumMoving Image
  • FormSeries
  • Duration49 mins, 9 secs
  • GenresCrime, Drama
  • Year1971
  • WARNING: This clip contains violence

Albert Crone (Edward Hepple) and Willie Aspinall (Robert McDarra), scared for their safety, have recruited George Flack (Gerard Maguire) to confront John Kelso (John Fegan). As Flack beats up Kelso, Albert, Willie and their neighbours Mrs Roche (Joan Letch), Mrs Wicks (Marguerite Loftus) and Mrs Laver (Christine Calcutt), watch through their curtains.

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Crawford Productions
  • WARNING: This clip contains violence

Albert Crone (Edward Hepple) and Willie Aspinall (Robert McDarra), scared for their safety, have recruited George Flack (Gerard Maguire) to confront John Kelso (John Fegan). As Flack beats up Kelso, Albert, Willie and their neighbours Mrs Roche (Joan Letch), Mrs Wicks (Marguerite Loftus) and Mrs Laver (Christine Calcutt), watch through their curtains.

Courtesy of
Crawford Productions
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  • Production company
    Crawford Productions
    Producer
    Marie Trevor
    Director
    Ian Crawford
    Film sequences directed
    Gary Conway
    Writer
    John Dingwall
    Cast
    Christine Calcutt, Shirley Cameron, Terence Donovan, Keith Eden, Chuck Faulkner, John Fegan, Ted Hamilton, Edward Hepple, Gerard Kennedy, Joan Letch, Ronald Little, Marguerite Lofthouse, Gerard Maguire (AKA Gerard MacGuire), Patricia Smith, Frank Taylor

  • by Kate Matthews

    Communicating in whispered rumours and watching from behind closed curtains are motifs throughout this episode, building a portrait of a claustrophobic community caught in a cycle of cowardice and cruelty.

    This disturbing sequence makes the street into a stage as the neighbours watch the spectacle from their windows. It is perhaps not quite the spectacle they might have expected – Kelso does not fight back and the scene is made all the more disturbing by this.

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