Goodbye Paradise is a 1983 Australia

Australia

Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

n film directed by Carl Schultz

Carl Schultz

Carl Schultz is a Hungarian film director.-Early life:He left his native Budapest during the uprising of 1956 with his brother Otto Schultz. They fled to England; after arriving in London, they moved to Manchester...

. On Queensland

Queensland

Queensland is a state of Australia, occupying the north-eastern section of the mainland continent. It is bordered by the Northern Territory, South Australia and New South Wales to the west, south-west and south respectively. To the east, Queensland is bordered by the Coral Sea and Pacific Ocean...

's Gold Coast

Gold Coast, Queensland

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 in the early 1980s, a disgraced former cop, Michael Stacey (Ray Barrett

Ray Barrett

Raymond Charles "Ray" Barrett was an Australian actor. He was one of the more popular leading men on British television in the 1960s, where he was best known for his appearances in The Troubleshooters . Back in Australia he was a leading man in many TV series over the years.-Biography:Barrett was...

) writes a book exposing police corruption, does an investigation resulting in 2 murders, exposes a religious cult and watches the army begin a military coup.

Awards

The film was nominated for 4 AFI Awards

Australian Film Institute Awards

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, won in the Best Actor in the Lead Role (Ray Barrett) and Best Screenplay, Original or Adapted (Bob Ellis

Bob Ellis

Bob Ellis is an Australian writer, journalist, film-maker and political commentator. He was a student at the University of Sydney at the same time as other notable Australians including Clive James, Germaine Greer, Les Murray, John Bell, Ken Horler, and Mungo McCallum...

, Denny Lawrence) categories. John Seale won the Cinematographer of the Year award of the Australian Cinematographers Society.

Cast

• Ray Barrett as Michael Stacy
• Paul Chubb
  Paul Chubb
  Paul Chubb was an Australian film and television actor primarily in genres of comedy and drama. He was born Paul Dunford in Arncliffe, Sydney....
  
   as Curly
• Guy Doleman
  Guy Doleman
  Guy Doleman was a New Zealand actor.He is perhaps best known for his role as "Count Lippe" in the 1965 James Bond film Thunderball, and as "Colonel Ross" in the three film adaptations of Len Deighton's "Harry Palmer" novels, starring Michael Caine, in the 1960s...
  
   as Quiney
• Kate Fitzpatrick
  Kate Fitzpatrick
  Kate Fitzpatrick is an Australian-based television, film and theatre actress.-Career:...
  
   as Mrs. McCreadie
• Lex Marinos
  Lex Marinos
  Lex Marinos OAM is an Australian television actor, director and writer. Notable for his acting role as 'Bruno', the Italian son-in-law of bigot Ted Bullpitt, on the Australian comedy television series Kingswood Country as and host of Late Night Legends on ABC2, he was also a presenter on radio...
  
   as Con
• Robyn Nevin
  Robyn Nevin
  Robyn Anne Nevin AM , is an Australian stage and screen actress, and is considered by some as a doyenne of Australian theatre.- Early life :...
  
   as Kate
• Don Pascoe as Senator McCredie

External links

• Goodbye Paradise at the Australian screen