Summer City

For the community in Tennessee, see Summer City, Tennessee.

Summer City
Directed by	Christopher Fraser
Produced by	Phillip Avalon
Written by	Phillip Avalon
Starring	John Jarratt Steve Bisley Mel Gibson James Elliott Abigail Ward "Pally" Austin
Music by	Phil Butkis
Cinematography	Jerry Marek
Editing by	David Stiven
Studio	Avalon Film Corporation Studio
Distributed by	Intertropic films
Release date(s)	22 December 1977
Running time	83 min.
Country	Australia
Language	English
Budget	A$ 66,000[1]

Summer City is a 1977 Australian film, most notable for having Mel Gibson in his first role. It was filmed in Sydney, Australia and is also known as Coast of Terror.

Plot

In the early 1960s, Sandy (John Jarratt), Boo (Steve Bisley), Scollop (Mel Gibson) and Robbie (Phil Avalon) drive to the beaches north of Sydney for a surfing weekend. The boys are planning to give Sandy a memorable ‘one last fling’ before his impending marriage. Tension flares between university-educated Sandy and ocker Boo when Sandy decides not to join in the fun. At a local dance, Boo seduces Caroline (Debbie Forman), the teenage daughter of a caravan park owner (James Elliott) who discovers what has happened and comes looking for Boo with a gun.^[1]

Cast

• John Jarratt as Sandy
• Phillip Avalon as Robbie
• Steve Bisley as Boo
• Mel Gibson as Scollop
• James Elliott as Caroline's father
• Debbie Forman as Caroline
• Abigail as the woman in pub
• Ward "Pally" Austin as himself
• Judith Woodroffe as the waitress
• Carl Rorke as Giuseppe
• Ross Bailey as Nail
• Hank Tick as Caveman
• Bruce Cole as the man in car
• Vicki Hekimian as Donna
• Karen Williams as Gloria

References

1. ^ ^{a b} ASO - Summer City

External links

• Summer City at the Internet Movie Database
• Summer City at the National Film and Sound Archive