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The Clean Machine

1988 Australian film

This article is about the telemovie. For the album by Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson, see the "Clean" Machine.

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]

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Plot

Inspector Eddie Riordan is appointed to head a new anti-corruption squad.

Cast

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 film 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

  1. [1]
    Ed. Scott Murray, Australia on the Small Screen 1970-1995, Oxford Uni Press, 1996 p26
  2. [2]
    "Interview with Ken Cameron", Signet, 12 April 1996 Archived 21 July 2013 at the Wayback Machine accessed 18 November 2012
  3. [3]
    Hook, Barbara (21 November 1988). "Doogue aside, Penguins look good". The Age. Retrieved 4 February 2021 – via Newspapers.com.Free access icon


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