The Clean Machine
The Clean Machine is a 1988 Australian tele movie about police corruption starring Steve Bisley. It was one of four telemovies made by Kennedy Miller around this time.[1]
| The Clean Machine | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Ken Cameron |
| Produced by | Terry Hayes Doug Mitchell George Miller |
| Written by | Ken Cameron Terry Hayes Richard Mortlock |
| Starring | Steve Bisley Grigor Taylor Ed Devereuax |
| Cinematography | Dean Semler |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | Network Ten |
Release date | 22 May 1988 |
Running time | 90 mins |
| Country | Australia |
| Language | English |
Plot
Inspector Eddie Riordan is appointed to head a new anti-corruption squad.
Production
The director was Ken Cameron:
They asked me did I want to make it on 35mm. Now, I've always wondered whether I made a big mistake by not doing it on 35mm. But I don't think it would have been a success in the cinema. It wouldn't have had the density that it had on television. In terms of big screen, I could not have had the production values; the money wouldn't have stretched that far. So I don't know. There's a turning point. You never know what these turning points mean. But I knew one of the factors was that we didn't have Mel Gibson in the lead. I think Steve's terrific in it, but to release it as a movie in that genre, you almost needed Mel or a star.[2]
Cameron did say doing the movie revived his career after the box office failure of The Umbrella Woman.[2]
Reception
Bisley won the Best Actor in a One-off Drama accolade at the 1988 Penguin Awards.[3]
References
- Ed. Scott Murray, Australia on the Small Screen 1970-1995, Oxford Uni Press, 1996 p26
- "Interview with Ken Cameron", Signet, 12 April 1996 Archived 21 July 2013 at the Wayback Machine accessed 18 November 2012
- Hook, Barbara (21 November 1988). "Doogue aside, Penguins look good". The Age. Retrieved 4 February 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
