The Killing Beach Movie Review 1992

Australian photojournalist Judith Wilkes (Scacchi) travels to Malaysia in the late 1970s to report on the plight of the Vietnamese boat people seeking refuge there. She befriends the wife of the Australian ambassador, a former callgirl from Saigon, who hopes to find her own children among the refugees. But the native Malays resent the foreign intrusion and are determined to stop the boat people--no matter what the cost in blood. Based on the novel "Turtle Beach" by Blanche D'Alpuget.

Distribution

Sony Pictures Home Video, Sony Pictures Plz., 10202 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, CA 90232, Phone: (310)244-7306, Fax: (310)280-2485, URL: http://www.spe.sony.com, Remarks: Formerly Columbia Tristar Home Entertainment

Available on VHS
Running time 105 minutes.
Originally from Australian.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Period Piece: 1970s, Politics, Asia, Front Page

Screenplay

Ann Turner

Cast

Greta Scacchi, Joan Chen, Jack Thompson, Art Malik, Norman Kaye

Cinematography

Russell Boyd

Director

Stephen Wallace

Producer

Matt Carroll, Graham Burke, Greg Coote, Village Roadshow Pictures, Regency International Pictures