Australia's greatest living playwright, David Williamson skewered contemporary Australian life with witty stories of sex, sport and social politics. His hit plays inevitably made the leap from stage to screen, and into cinema history, with Williamson-scripted films such as Don's Party, The Club and Gallipoli winning him 3 AFI awards for best screenplay. These Williamson-penned film classics cover the breadth of his celebrated screenwriting career.

 

 

DON'S PARTY (1975), 90 minAdapted by Williamson from his own hit stage play, winner of 5 AFI awards, directed by Bruce Beresford (Breaker Morant, The Club), and featuring an all-star cast including Graham Kennedy, John Hargreaves, and Ray Barrett, Don's Party is a riotous look at middle Australia on election night.

THE REMOVALIST (1975), 85 minThis classic adaptation of a popular Williamson play stars John Hargreaves (Don's Party) and Peter Cummins (Storm Boy) as good and bad cops who assist a battered wife in the removal of furniture from her belligerent husband's flat.

TRAVELLING NORTH (1987), 93 minA crotchety old man (Leo Mckern) and his much younger companion (Julia Blake) travel to Queensland to enjoy their retirement but paradise fails to hide some dark secrets. Winner, Best Screenplay, AFI Awards (1987).

FOUR MINUTE MILE (1988), 152 minThe true story of John Landy, Roger Bannister and the Race of the Century. It was the sporting equivalent of conquering Everest: running a mile in under four minutes. This classic saga of human endurance is set around one of the greatest moments in sporting history.