Mortgage (film)

Mortgage
Directed by	Bill Bennett
Produced by	Bruce Moir
Written by	Bill Bennett
Starring	Brian Vriends Doris Younane Bruce Venables
Production company	Film Australia
Distributed by	Network Nine (TV) Home Cinema Group (video)
Release dates	11 April 1990 (TV)
Running time	98 mins
Country	Australia
Language	English

Mortgage is a 1990 Australian drama film directed by Bill Bennett.^[1]

Plot

Dave and Tina Dodd want to buy a house. They make a contract with shifty John Napper who suggests builder George Shooks.

Production

The film was one of a series of drama documentaries produced at Film Australia for the Nine Network dealing with social issues. It was made using improvisation.^[2] Others in the series included Prejudice.

Bill Bennett described it as one of his favourite films.^[3]

References

↑ Scott Murray, Australia on the Small Screen 1970-1995, Oxford Uni Press, 1996 p108
↑ David Stratton, The Avocado Plantation: Boom and Bust in the Australian Film Industry, Pan MacMillan, 1990 p211-212
↑ "Interview with Bill Bennett", Signet, 11 April 1996 accessed 17 November 2012

External links

Mortgage at the Internet Movie Database

The Films of Bill Bennett

Features	A Street to Die (1985) Backlash (1986) Dear Cardholder (1987) Jilted (1988) Malpractice (1989) Mortgage (1990) Spider and Rose (1994) Two If by Sea (1996) Kiss or Kill (1997) In a Savage Land (1999) Cut (2000) (producer only) Tempted (2000) The Nugget (2002) Deck Dogz (2003) (producer only) Uninhabited (2010)

Documentaries	The Cattle King (1983) Shipwrecked (1984) The Banjo & The Bard (1987) The Chelmsford Scream (1990) You Have No Secrets (1992) The Gadfly - a Portrait of Francis James (1992) (producer only) Last Man Hanged (1993) (producer only) Bollywood Hero (2009)

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