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Rusty Bugles is a 1981 Australian television film based on the stage play of the same name. Production. Sumner Locke Elliot announced in the late 1970s he wanted the play to be filmed. [1] The ABC filmed it in 1981. It was the second last in a series of play adaptations on the ABC.
Rusty Bugles: Directed by Alan Burke. With Graham Rouse, Stuart Finch, Kerry Francis, Robert McDarra. Bored Australian soldiers while away the hours with nothing to do during the Second World War.
- Alan Burke
- 1965-06-23
- Comedy
- 75
Rusty Bugles (1981) This made-for-TV movie from the Australian ABC was a wry, rich and intensely Australian comedy – full of expressions such as dunny, galah, cobber, bludger, and tom-tits – following a group of soldiers stationed at a remote ordnance camp in the Northern Territory during World War II.
Rusty Bugles (TV Movie 1965) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
Nov 30, 2016 · Rusty Bugles is a comedy-drama by Sumner Locke Elliot, one of the many talented writers to abandon Australia in the 1940s and 1950s in search of an artistic living overseas.
Stephen Vagg’s series on forgotten Australian TV plays looks at the 1965 adaptation of the stage classic, Rusty Bugles.
Rusty Bugles. 1980. TV drama | 73mins | Completed. An ordinance camp in the Northern Territory, 1944. The men are neither in nor out of the war. A cross section of Australian soldiers go through boredom, the news of infidelities at home, endless hope for leave - all coloured by unquenchable humour and optimism. Is this your listing?
