Summerfield is a 1977 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 Ken Hannam

Ken Hannam

Ken Hannam was an Australian film and television director.-Career:Born in Melbourne, the eldest of three boys, Hannam lived in his youth in Sydney and was educated at Wollaroi College in New South Wales. He worked in Australian radio and television, then moved in 1968 to England...

, written by Cliff Green

Cliff Green

Cliff Green is an Australian screen writer, whose best known work is Picnic at Hanging Rock .He was awarded the Order of Australia Medal in the Queen's Birthday Honours List in June 2009...

 (who wrote the screenplay for Picnic At Hanging Rock

Picnic at Hanging Rock (film)

Picnic at Hanging Rock is a 1975 Australian feature film directed by Peter Weir and starring Anne-Louise Lambert, Helen Morse, Rachel Roberts and Vivean Gray. The film is adapted from the novel of the same name, by author Joan Lindsay....

) and produced by Patricia Lovell

Patricia Lovell

Patricia Lovell is an Australian film producer whose work within the that country's film industry led her to receive the Longford Life Achievement Award in 2004 from the Australian Film Institute . One of her productions, Gallipoli, received an AFI Award in 1982 as best film...

 (who produced Picnic At Hanging Rock). It stars Nick Tate

Nick Tate

Nicholas John "Nick" Tate is an Australian actor best known for his role as Eagle pilot Alan Carter in both seasons of the 1970s science fiction television series Space: 1999, as well as for playing the role of Gordon Hamilton's errant brother James in the 1980's soap opera "Sons and...

, Elizabeth Alexander, John Waters

John Waters (actor)

John Russell Waters is a film, theatre and television actor and musician best known in Australia, to where he moved in 1968...

, Charles 'Bud' Tingwell, Max Fairchild and Geraldine Turner. Summerfield was filmed on location in Phillip Island in Victoria

Victoria (Australia)

Victoria is the second most populous state in Australia. Geographically the smallest mainland state, Victoria is bordered by New South Wales, South Australia, and Tasmania on Boundary Islet to the north, west and south respectively....

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Plot summary

The story begins with Simon Robinson (Tate) arriving in a small seaside community to take over as teacher at the local school. He makes the acquaintance of siblings Jenny and David Abbott (Alexander and Waters, respectively), and Jenny's daughter Sally, who live on the island estate of Summerfield. The discoveries that his predecessor vanished without a trace and that Sally has a rare blood disorder lead Simon to try and discover the truth behind the mystery.