The Clean Machine

The Clean Machine
The Clean Machine
Directed by	Ken Cameron
Written by	Ken Cameron; Terry Hayes; Richard Mortlock
Produced by	Terry Hayes; Doug Mitchell; George Miller
Starring	Steve Bisley; Grigor Taylor;
Cinematography	Dean Semler
Production; company	Kennedy Miller
Distributed by	Network Ten
Release date	22 May 1988;
Running time	90 minutes
Country	Australia
Language	English

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]

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
^ ^a ^b "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.

External links[]

The Clean Machine at IMDb

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[1] Ed. Scott Murray, Australia on the Small Screen 1970-1995, Oxford Uni Press, 1996 p26

[cameron-2] "Interview with Ken Cameron", Signet, 12 April 1996 Archived 21 July 2013 at the Wayback Machine accessed 18 November 2012

[3] Hook, Barbara (21 November 1988). "Doogue aside, Penguins look good". The Age. Retrieved 4 February 2021 – via Newspapers.com.

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