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Pallet on the Floor is a 1986 New Zealand made drama/comedy, based on the final novel by Ronald Hugh Morrieson. Shot in 1983 at Patea, partly in a closed-down abattoir, the film was given limited release in New Zealand three years later.
The main role of abattoir worker Sam Jamieson is played by veteran actor Peter McCauley.
Pallet on the Floor is the only feature film directed by Lynton Butler, who earlier made One of those Blighters, a television production which fictionalised Morrieson's life.
Actor and musician Bruno Lawrence contributed to the jazz score, and has a small cameo role playing Morrieson as a bass player at a wedding.
The focus of the plot was shifted to the character of the British remittance man in the hope that Peter O’Toole would take the role. This did not occur. While billed as comedy, the film depicts 1960s racism and class divisions, and maintains Morrieson’s trademark preoccupations .... of sex, death, mateship, voyeurism, violence, booze and mayhem in bleak small town New Zealand.
Original Release
05/15/1984
Cast
Name | Character |
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Bruce Spence | Basil Beaumont-Foster |
Peter McCauley | Sam Jamieson |
Jillian O'Brien | Sue Jamieson |
Shirley Gruar | Miriam Breen |
Alistair Douglas | Stanley Breen / Stan Breen |
Tony Barry | Larkman |
John Bach | Jack Voot |
Marshall Napier | Joe Voot |
Terence Cooper | Brendon O'Keefe |
Bill Derby | Harry the Gate Keeper |
Directors
Writers
Robert Rising, Lynton Butler, Ronald Hugh Morrieson, Martyn Sanderson
Cast
Name | Character |
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Bruce Spence | Basil Beaumont-Foster |
Peter McCauley | Sam Jamieson |
Jillian O'Brien | Sue Jamieson |
Shirley Gruar | Miriam Breen |
Alistair Douglas | Stanley Breen / Stan Breen |
Tony Barry | Larkman |
John Bach | Jack Voot |
Marshall Napier | Joe Voot |
Terence Cooper | Brendon O'Keefe |
Bill Derby | Harry the Gate Keeper |
Nigel Morris | 1st Worker |
Wayne Pettett | 2nd Worker |
John Ward | 3rd Worker |
Robin Farmer | 1st Maori Worker |
Sam Haapu Jnr | 2nd Maori Worker |
Gerard Hipango | 3rd Maori Worker |
Peter Rowley | Henderson |
Margaret McGovern | Girl at Bus Stop |
Suzy Clyde | Girl at Bus Stop |
Suzanne Clarke | Girl at Bus Stop |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Larry Parr | Producer |
Dorthe Scheffmann | Producer |