Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 93 min
- Age rating
- NR
- Language
- English
- Country
- Australia, Taiwan
- Violence
- Moderate
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
The story
Sent to rescue survivors from the site of a plane crash in the South Pacific during WWII, Captain Kelly and his elite squad of Australian commandos must keep tabs on a defecting Japanese official who could hold the secret to peace.
- mission
- submarine
- world war ii
- airplane crash
- commando
- pacific theater
- 1940s
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Mel Gibson
Captain Kelly
John Phillip Law
Lieutenant Veitch
Sam Neill
Sergeant Costello
Chris Haywood
Able Seaman A.D. 'Sparrer' Bird
- Sylvia Chang — Chien Hua
- Ko Chun-Hsiung — Lin Chan-Lang
- John Waters — Ted King
- Val Champion — Ed Ayres
- Yi Yuan — Imanaka
- Directed
- Tim Burstall
- Written
- Roger Marshall
Production
- Rating
- 5.9 / 10 · 71 ratings
- Studio
- Fauna Productions, Central Motion Picture Corporation, Australian Film Commission, John McCallum Productions
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
