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Smash Palace
Film (Trailer and Excerpts) – 1981
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Roger Donaldson talks about Smash Palace
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Features Smash Palace's director and stunt driver
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Greer Robson’s follow-up role
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Cowboys of Culture
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Mortimer's Patch - Day of Judgement (First Episode)
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More filmic car carcasses
Nutcase
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Another tale involving a child and a manhunt
Goodbye Pork Pie
Also featuring Bruno Lawrence
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A Roger Donaldson-shot documentary on NZ hippy culture
Hooks and Feelers
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A pioneering TV film co-directed by Roger Donaldson
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Lawrence was cast after Roger Donaldson saw him in this
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Actor Keith Aberdein reported from this disaster
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Short film about a woman with a thing for guns
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More blowing out candles
AA Torque Show - Series Two, Episode Seven
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Winners & Losers: Blues for Miss Laverty
Roger Donaldson as a co-director
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NZ Film Commission's Lindsay Shelton discusses Kiwi films
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Sunday - The Cowboy and the Indian
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Roger Donaldson is interviewed about his photography
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Documentary about the making of this film
Kaleidoscope - Roger Donaldson in Hollywood
Roger Donaldson talks about Smash Palace
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Documentary on actor Bruno Lawrence
Coming Home - Roger Donaldson & Steve Millen
Features Smash Palace's director and stunt driver
Night of the Red Hunter - Telefeature
More of actors Greer Robson and Bruno Lawrence
Gordonia
Real life drama from a wrecker’s yard
Magic Kiwis - Bruno Do That Thing
Features Smash Palace's director and stunt driver
Starlight Hotel
Greer Robson’s follow-up role
The World's Fastest Indian
More men and cars from Roger Donaldson
Sleeping Dogs
The first film directed by Roger Donaldson
The Quiet Earth
Another classic Bruno Lawrence role
Cowboys of Culture
Documentary that includes Smash Palace
McLaren
Another man and car story from Roger Donaldson
Kaleidoscope - NZ Cinema, the Past Decade
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Wild Horses
Also stars Keith Aberdein
The Dominant Species
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Blerta Revisited
Featuring Bruno Lawrence
The Adventure World of Sir Edmund Hillary - The Kaipo Wall
Roger Donaldson film on Edmund Hillary in Fiordland
Monkey Tale
Featuring violations of road safety rules
Kaikohe Demolition
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Wound
Another tale of daughters and parents
I'm Going to Mum's
Short about divorce and kids
Everything We Loved
Features another kidnapped child
Mortimer's Patch - Day of Judgement (First Episode)
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More filmic car carcasses
Nutcase
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Goodbye Pork Pie
Also featuring Bruno Lawrence
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Hooks and Feelers
Also features Keith Aberdein as an actor
Winners & Losers: The Woman at the Store
A pioneering TV film co-directed by Roger Donaldson
All Things Being Equal - 22 September 1978 Episode
Lawrence was cast after Roger Donaldson saw him in this
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Actor Keith Aberdein reported from this disaster
Bad Blood
A true life story of a 1941 manhunt
Stick to Your Gun
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More blowing out candles
AA Torque Show - Series Two, Episode Seven
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Roger Donaldson as a co-director
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Music video made by the same director
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