Sunday Too Far Away
The film is set on a sheep station in the Australian outback in 1955 and its action concentrates on the shearers' reactions to a threat to their bonuses and the arrival of non-union labour.Acclaimed for its understated realism of the work, camaraderie and general life of the shearer, Jack Thompson plays the knock-about Foley, a heavy drinking gun shearer (talented professional sheep shearer), and while he makes a play for the station owner's daughter Sheila (Lisa Peers), the film is a presentation of various aspects of Australian male culture and not a romance; the film's title itself is reputedly the lament of an Australian shearer's wife: "Friday night [he's] too tired; Saturday night too drunk; Sunday, too far away".Foley loses his status as top shearer to Arthur Black and blows most of his money gambling.They wanted to make a film about the Gallipoli campaign and considered a co-production with Crawford Productions.[1] This caused a great deal of conflict between Ken Hannam, Gil Brearley and Matt Carroll.