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Dawn! (1979)

Director: Ken Hannam

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From Time Out Film Guide

One might have expected Ken Hannam, who made one of Australia's breakthrough movies in Sunday Too Far Away, to have brought a bit more bite to this bland biopic of swimming ace Dawn Fraser, the Olympic gold medallist whose clashes with authority culminated in a flag-stealing incident at the 1964 Tokyo games that saw her banned from competition for ten years. Mackay-Payne, a swimmer herself, looks more confident in the pool than out of it.

Author: TJ 0000-00-00 00:00:00

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Cast & crew

Director: Ken Hannam

Producer: Joy Cavill

Cast: Bronwyn Mackay-Payne, Tom Richards, John Diedrich, Bunney Brooke full cast

Duration: 120 mins


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