This unusual Australian psychological drama stars Kerry Walker as Felicity Bannister, a lumpish, neurotic Sydney girl living with her middle-class suburban parents – a respectable stockbroker (John Frawley) and a repressed dominating mother (Ruth Cracknell).
Felicity claims she has been sexually attacked by a prowler so that she can become a night prowler herself, roaming the streets of Sydney at night dressed in black leather and armed with a knife.
She terrorises people she encounters and embarks on forays into homes, vandalising them.
Patrick White’s disturbing tale of obsession is directed in flashy style by Jim Sharman (the director of The Rocky Horror Picture Show).
The movie – shot on 16mm film and blown up to 35mm – was selected to open the 1978 Sydney Film Festival, where it was harshly received.
Felicity Bannister
Kerry Walker Doris Bannister
Ruth Cracknell Humphrey Bannister
John Frawley John Galbraith
John Derum Madge Hopkirk
Maggie Kirkpatrick Prowler
Terry Camilleri Old Man
Harry Neilson Dr Herborn
Peter Collingwood Mrs Burstall
Robbie Ward Sir Roland Duddleston
Alexander Archdale Lady Duddleston
Doris Fitton Jill Pegley
June Collis Patti Stevens
Maggie Blinco Harv
Roger Carroll Darl
Paddy Madden
Director
Jim Sharman
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Patrick White’s disturbing tale of obsession is directed in flashy style by Jim Sharman (the director of The Rocky Horror Picture Show).
Doris Bannister
