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Early Frost is a 1982 Australian thriller film starring Guy Doleman, Jon Blake, Diana McLean and David Franklin.




Plot


While gathering evidence for a divorce case, private detective Mike Hayes discovers a corpse. He suspects the death - officially listed as an accident - to be murder, but how, why and committed by who? The husband or the mistress?
The more Mike investigates, the more convoluted, complicated and sinister the situation becomes. Hayes meets David Prentice who keeps a scrapbook on violent crime and gets further information about the temperamental and schizophrenic Val Meadows, the mistress, and learns of her fears. She suspects that someone is trying to kill her. She has set her two sons off on a "Don't do as I do, do as I say" kind of existence, where mindless punishments are used as a substitute for love and understanding.
The wife, Peg Prentice, on the other hand, is too indulgent with her son David - accepting his disobedience - because he is the only adult in her life (her husband is constantly away on business).
A pattern begins to emerge as a photograph showing a number of women, including Val, is found. All the women in it suffered accidents - some fatal. Hayes's further investigations seem to indicate that the only people who hate Val enough to want her dead are her own family but even there, there is doubt.
The number of mysterious accidents involving the deaths of all those women in suburban Australia, lead Val to suspect her son of mass-murder.




Cast


Diana McLean as Val Meadows
Jon Blake as Peter Meadows
Janet Kingsbury as Peg Prentice
David Franklin as David Prentice
Daniel Cumerford as Joey Meadows
Guy Doleman as Mike Hayes
Joanne Samuel as Chris
Kit Taylor as Paul Sloane
Danny Adcock as John Meadows
Gerry Sont as Party Guest




Production


In 1974 David Hannay was working at Greater Union when he read a script by Terry O'Connor. Hannay was impressed and tried to raise funds for the film, and eventually succeeded through the company Filmco. Hannay tried to get Brian Trenchard-Smith to direct but he was busy and eventually hired New Zealand director Brian McDuffie. The movie was originally known as Something Wicked This Way Comes but in order to avoid confusion with a Disney film of the same name the movie was retitled.
Filming took place June to August 1981. McDuffie and Hannay clashed during the shoot and McDuffie was sacked on the day of the wrap party. McDuffie took his name off the film and no director is credited. The resulting movie has been called a representation of the worst kind of tax shelter film from the 1980s.




Release


The film was never released theatrically.




References






External links


Early Frost at IMDb
Early Frost at Letterbox DVD
Early Frost at Oz Movies

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