The Returning

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| name = The Returning

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| director = John Day

| producer = Trisha Downie
executive
David Hannay

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| starring = Phillip Gordon
Alison Routledge

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| studio = Echo Pictures
New Zealand Film Commission

| released = {{Film date|1990}}

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| country = Australia
New Zealand

| language = English

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The Returning is a 1990 Australia-New Zealand horror film directed by John Day.Ed. Scott Murray, Australia on the Small Screen 1970-1995, Oxford Uni Press, 1996 p130