Following the success of the 1967 Australian television series of the same name (based on the 1947 novel by Jon Cleary), this feature film version was produced by the same director (David Cahill) and the same principal cast.
Frankie McCoy (Ken Shorter) is young, stylish and tough, an illegal ‘SP’ bookmaker in the working-class inner-Sydney suburb of Newtown.
Conscripted to fight in Vietnam, he enters basic training at Kapooka camp, but neither the food nor the discipline agrees with him.
He goes AWOL and returns to his old haunts, but his girlfriend Margie (Rowena Wallace) rejects him.
Frustrated and in debt to some local criminals, he drifts into the arms of Myra (Carmen Duncan), a more sexually liberated ‘modern’ girl, with disastrous results when he accidentally kills her in an argument.
Frankie goes on the run, and returns to Margie but ends up being attacked by a gang of thugs, is blinded by blood, runs into a car and is killed.
Frankie McCoy
Ken Shorter Margie Harris
Rowena Wallace Myra Neilson
Carmen Duncan Peg Clancy
Judith Fisher Mrs McCoy
Lyndall Barbour Mick Patterson
Slim DeGrey Peeper
Max Cullen Ern
Kevin Leslie Barnie
Goff Vockler Nugget
Lou Vernon Jack Kelly
John Armstrong Sergeant Quinn
Peter Aanensen Keith Grayson
Max Phipps Lennie Ryan
Vincent Gil Peter
Henri Szeps
Director
David Cahill
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Conscripted to fight in Vietnam, he enters basic training at Kapooka camp, but neither the food nor the discipline agrees with him.
