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From fast-running humans and animals to motorhead mayhem,...
This collection celebrates the inimitable performances of...
NZ On Screen has selected an all-time NZ feature film Top...
This 1980s collection showcases the screen icons from the...
Car races, demolition derbies and a famous yellow mini...
A collection devoted to the career of director Roger...
A collection celebrating 40 years of the NZ Film...
Documentary about the making of this film
Roger Donaldson talks about Smash Palace
Documentary on actor Bruno Lawrence
Features Smash Palace's director and stunt driver
More of actors Greer Robson and Bruno Lawrence
Real life drama from a wrecker’s yard
Features Smash Palace's director and stunt driver
Greer Robson’s follow-up role
More men and cars from Roger Donaldson
The first film directed by Roger Donaldson
Another classic Bruno Lawrence role
Documentary that includes Smash Palace
Another man and car story from Roger Donaldson
Smash Palace features in this survey of NZ film
Also stars Keith Aberdein
More car wrecks
Featuring Bruno Lawrence
Roger Donaldson film on Edmund Hillary in Fiordland
Featuring violations of road safety rules
Many cars get destroyed in this documentary
Another tale of daughters and parents
Short about divorce and kids
Features another kidnapped child
Also features actor Greer Robson
More filmic car carcasses
Also directed by Roger Donaldson
Another tale involving a child and a manhunt
Also featuring Bruno Lawrence
A Roger Donaldson-shot documentary on NZ hippy culture
Also features Keith Aberdein as an actor
A pioneering TV film co-directed by Roger Donaldson
Lawrence was cast after Roger Donaldson saw him in this
Actor Keith Aberdein reported from this disaster
A true life story of a 1941 manhunt
Short film about a woman with a thing for guns
More blowing out candles
More speeding on the Central Plateau
Another hostage drama
Roger Donaldson as a co-director
NZ Film Commission's Lindsay Shelton discusses Kiwi films
Music video made by the same director
The making of another classic Roger Donaldson film
Short film about a dog and tough choices
Early Roger Donaldson documentary about a Kiwi champion
In this award-winning short film, a young mother...
Behind the scenes of feature Sleeping Dogs
Roger Donaldson's film on motorcyclist Burt Munro
Interview with Roger Donaldson in Queenstown
Roger Donaldsonon his film The World's Fastest Indian
Another Roger Donaldson portrait of males losing it
Roger Donaldson is interviewed about his photography
Another drama about a marriage in trouble
Another abduction in the name of love
Another portrait of a marriage in decay
Documentary on the 66th New Zealand Grand Prix
A short film about car culture in the 1980s
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Get really innovative and sell it to me for internet delivery - even get the content in the apple store. PLEASE - it will be so god fro NZ film
I would like to purchase a copy of Smash Palace on DVD.
Currently I live in the Falkland Islands, however the Net makes everything possible.
Email is reagle@horizon.co.fk
Bruno Lawrence was a truly multi talented NZ icon. This movie showed him at his best.
The railway lines scene at the end has been much copied in movies but never gets the viewer hooked into believing its going to be the end like Roger Donaldson does here.
Great title song from Sharon O'Neil