Dead Men Running
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| image =
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| genre =
| writer = {{Plainlist|
- Eric Tayler
- Harold Lander
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| based_on = {{Based on|Dead Men Running|D'arcy Niland}}
| director = Eric Tayler
| starring = {{Plainlist|
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| country = Australia
| language = English
| num_episodes = 6
| producer =
| camera = Lloyd Shiels{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article46241878 |title=NEVIL SHUTE STORY ON TV |newspaper=The Australian Women's Weekly |volume=39 |issue=38 |location=Australia, Australia |date=16 February 1972 |accessdate=4 June 2023 |page=9 |via=National Library of Australia}}
| runtime = 35 mins
| channel = ABC
| first_aired = {{Start date|1971|02|10|df=y}}
| last_aired = {{End date|1971|03|18|df=y}}
}}
Dead Men Running is a 1971 Australian mini series based on the final novel by D'Arcy Niland about the effect in Australia of the political troubles in Ireland early in the twentieth century.Albert Moran, Moran's Guide to Australian TV Series, AFTRS 1993 p 141
The Age said it was "cast in the mould of My Brother Jack."{{cite news|newspaper=The Age|date=4 February 1971|page= 29|title=Maigret's man sets tone in Australian serial}}
Premise
The adventures of an Irish migrant in an Australian country town in World War One.
Cast
- Ewen Solon as Starkey Moore
- Brendon Lunney as Emmett
- Diane Craig as Tessa Doherty
- Stewart Ginn
- John Fegan as Martin Walsh
- Bernadette Hughson as Prostitute
- Peter Gwynne
- Peter Reynolds
- Irene Inescourt
- Michael Boddy
- Don Crosby
- Moya O’Sullivan
- Max Cullen
- Graham Rouse
- Tom Farley
- Harry Lawrence
- John Armstrong
- Robert McDarra
- Chips Rafferty
- Ruth Cracknell
- Slim de Grey
- Doreen Warburton
Production
Filming started in August 1970 in Gulgong, New South Wales.{{cite news|newspaper=The Sunday Sydney Morning Herald|date=30 August 1970|page= 114|title=The box at its best}}
Reception
The Sun Herald said "what a first class piece it turned out to be."{{cite news|first=Valda|last=Marshall|newspaper=The Sunday Sydney Morning Herald|date=21 March 1971|page= 106|title=It's a Happening World}}
References
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External links
- [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0381746/ Dead Men Running] at IMDb
- [http://www.austlit.edu.au/austlit/page/C463069 Dead Men Running] at AustLit
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Category:1970s Australian television miniseries
Category:1971 Australian television series debuts