Stir (1980)
Filmed in the Clare Valley, Gladstone and the Flinders Ranges in South Australia, this prison movie was inspired by the true life prison riot at Bathurst Jail in 1974 and its subsequent Royal Commission into New South Wales Prisons.
Top billed cast
Bryan BrownChina Jackson
Max PhippsNorton
Dennis MillerRedford
Gary WaddellDave
Phil MotherwellAlby- Michael GowAndrew
- Edward RobshawPartidge
- Tex MortonThe Govenor (as Robert 'Tex' Morton)
Ray MarshallChalmers
Syd HeylenOld Bob
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