A selection of stills taken during the filming of Crooked Mick of the Speewah. Please click on the image to view at a higher resolution. Note that these thumbnails have been cropped to make for easier identification.
The camera dollies past the fairground crowd for the opening shot.
The crowd between takes
The Dandy (Adam Moulds) sizes up Sam!
The Dandy is unimpressed
Matt Potter (Gus) between takes
Alan Cinis getting into character
Sam & Gus contemplate their future
The journey begins
Bonza Pies Sam!
The Campsite set
The Drover (Bruce Spence)
Sam and Gus listen to Crooked Mick stories.
Gus and Sam on the back of a Kangaroo (we'll fix it in post!)
The Speewah desert (all we could make of it anyway)
Shearing giant invisible sheep
Jim Diamond as the sweeping-nodding shearer
The shearers.
The boys show the shearers how a real pie is made
The shearers jumping for Mick's floating pies!
Enter Crooked Mick (Ian Roberts). The blue pole became the water tower
Crooked Mick sizes the boys up.
Crooked Mick - as big as the legend made out...
..and as scary too!
The crowds line up to try Sam's pies.
Gus now spruiking pies.
Sam is finally happy
James Croke (Production Designer) shows Phil how he can make Adam Moulds (The Dandy) eat elephant poo
Nicola Daley (DOP) tries to make sense of Phil's gibberish.
The camera crew prepping for the Pie Store closing shot. .
Phil getting involved in a bit of shadow puppet work.
Phil during his audition as a giant sheep. We chose the sheep.
Phil speaking to the making of crew.
Most of the Crooked Mick team at the end of the shoot. (The rest were collapsed out the back)
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All images copyright AFTRS 2005