Final Cut (1980 film)

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{{Infobox film

| name = Final Cut

| image = Final Cut 1980.jpg

| caption = Film poster

| director = Ross Dimsey

| producer = Mike Williams
executive
Frank Gardiner

| writer = Jonathan Dawson
Ross Dimsey

| based_on = an original idea by Jonathan Dawson

| narrator =

| starring = Lou Brown
David Clendinning
Jennifer Cluff
Narelle Johnson

| music =

| cinematography = Ron Johanson

| editing =

| studio = Wilgar Productions

| distributor = Greater Union

| released = {{Film date|1980|10|17|df=y}}

| runtime = 81 minutes

| country = Australia

| language = English

| budget =

| gross =

}}

Final Cut is a 1980 Australian thriller film directed by Ross Dimsey. It was the first movie funded by the Queensland Film Corporation, who provided half the budget.David Stratton, The Avocado Plantation: Boom and Bust in the Australian Film Industry, Pan MacMillan, 1990 p291 The Australian Film Commission and private investment provided the rest of the finance. It was originally envisioned as a tele movie but then developed into a feature."First Films for Corps", Cinema Papers, Dec-Jan 1979-80 p596

It was shot at Surfers' Paradise.Jim Schembri, "Final Cut", Australian Film 1978-1992, Oxford Uni Press, 1993 p59