Early Frost (1982)
Private Detective Mike Hayes (Guy Doleman), is working on a divorce case, when he stumbles upon a series of cover-ups that leads to a corpse. His investigation takes him into the lievs of two families living in the Sydney suburbs. Although they look like ordinary people, one of them is the killer. Hayes meets the strange teenager David Prentice (David Franklin), who keeps a violent crime scrapbook, and Val Meadows (Diane McLean), the mistress who believes that someone is trying to kill her. The more the investigation deepens, the more twisted and complex it becomes. It appears the only people who hate Val enough to want her dead, are her own family. Could it be her two sons, alienated by her dominant nature, her lover, or even her best friend?
Director: Brian McDuffie
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Diana McLean as Val Meadows |
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Jon Blake as Peter Meadows |
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Janet Kingsbury as Peg Prentice |
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David Franklin as David Prentice |
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Daniel Cumerford as Joey Meadows |
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Guy Doleman as Mike Hayes |
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Joanne Samuel as Chris |
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Kit Taylor as Paul Sloane |
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Danny Adcock as John Meadows |
| Directing | Stuart Freeman | First Assistant Director |
| Camera | Erika Addis | Second Assistant Camera |
| Directing | Michael Bourchier | Second Assistant Director |
| Directing | Annie Peacock | Third Assistant Director |
| Camera | Sally Eccleston | Assistant Camera |
| Camera | Rod Hinds | Additional Photography |
| Camera | David Eggby | Camera Operator |
| Camera | Robert Verkerk | Grip |
| Camera | Irvine G. McLaughlin | Key Grip |
| Camera | Charles Stringer | Still Photographer |
| Camera | Andrew Lesnie | Additional Photography |
| Camera | David Connell | First Assistant Camera |
| Camera | Salik Silverstein | Assistant Camera |
| Camera | Louis Irving | Additional Photography |
| Camera | Paul Bucock | Additional Photography |
| Camera | Alleyn Mearns | Additional Photography |
| Camera | David Williamson | Additional Photography |
| Writing | Terry O'Connor | Writer |
| Camera | David Eggby | Director of Photography |
| Art | Bob Hilditch | Production Design |
| Production | John Fitzpatrick | Executive Producer |
| Editing | Tim Street | Editor |
| Production | Geoffrey Brown | Co-Producer |
| Production | David Hannay | Producer |
| Art | Bob Hilditch | Art Direction |
| Camera | Brett Robinson | Grip |
| Directing | Brian McDuffie | Director |