The Slim Dusty Movie

The Slim Dusty Movie
The Slim Dusty Movie
Soundtrack album by Slim Dusty
Released	August 1984
Genre	Country
Label	EMI Music
Producer	Rod Coe
Slim Dusty chronology

The Slim Dusty Movie
The Slim Dusty Movie
Directed by	Rob Stewart
Written by	Kent Chadwick
Produced by	Kent Chadwick
Starring	Slim Dusty; Joy McKean; Jon Blake
Cinematography	David Eggby
Edited by	Ken Sallows
Production; company	The Slim Dusty Movie Pty. Ltd
Distributed by	Greater Union Film Distributors; Umbrella Entertainment; Universal Pictures
Release dates	10 August 1984 (Mount Isa); 18 October 1984 (Australia);
Running time	107 minutes
Country	Australia
Language	English
Budget	A$2.3 million.

The Slim Dusty Movie is a 1984 Australian feature film directed by Rob Stewart and starring Slim Dusty, Joy McKean, Jon Blake and Mary Charleston.^[2]

The film

The film dramatises the early life and career of Australian country music singer/songwriter Slim Dusty, interspersed with footage of a 1980s round Australia tour by the Slim Dusty family and featuring several songs from Dusty's long career, including Pub With No Beer, When the Rain Tumbles Down in July, Lights on the Hill and Indian Pacific. Slim Dusty was Australia's most prolific musical artist, who died in 2003 while working on his 106th album for EMI Records. His wife Joy McKean and children Anne Kirkpatrick and David Kirpatrick are all accomplished country music singers who perform in the film on stage with Dusty. A number of Dusty's songwriters and old friends appear in the film, including Stan Coster and Gordon Parsons.

Directed by Rob Stewart (whose credits include 1983's For the Term of His Natural Life) and with cinematography by David Eggby (Mad Max, 1979), the film features Australian landscapes prominently and is essentially a biographical documentary. Shot in diverse locations, it includes live performances at the Sydney Opera House, Bowen, Charters Towers, Mount Isa, the Peppimenarti, Northern Territory aboriginal settlement and elsewhere.

Cinematography: David Eggby

Music Producer: Rod Coe

Audio Post: Roger Savage

Sound Recordist: Paul Clarke

Sound Assistant: Chris Piper

Concert Sound Mixer: Clive Jones

The Slim Dusty Movie grossed $225,000 at the box office in Australia.^[3]

A soundtrack was released from the movie. It peaked at number 73 on the Australian Kent Music Report.^[4]

Side A
No.	Title	Length
1.	"Where Country Is"	3:33
2.	"Song for the Aussies"	2:46
3.	"Old Sunlander Van" (performed by Anne Kirkpatrick)	2:39
4.	"Walk a Country Mile"	3:09
5.	"Wind Up Gramophone" (performed by Joy McKean)	2:51
6.	"Trouble" (performed by David Kirkpatrick)	2:10
7.	"Losin' My Blues Tonight"	3:23
8.	"Only The Two of Us Here / Old Fellar" (performed with Lew Williams)	5:39

Side B
No.	Title	Length
1.	"My Final Song"	2:08
2.	"When the Rain Tumbles Down in July"	1:52
3.	"Rehearsal Sequence Back to My Old Northern Home" (performed by Buck Taylor)	1:35
4.	"Old Time Country Halls"	3:29
5.	"The Biggest Disappointment" (with Buck Taylor)	3:05
6.	"Lights on the Hill"	3:05
7.	"Gymkhana Yodel" (performed by McKean Sisters)	3:19
8.	"Stay Away from Me"	2:54
9.	"Keep the Lovelight Shining" (with Joy McKean)	1:36

Side C
No.	Title	Length
1.	"The Man With the Hat Turn" (performed by Buddy Weston)	1:37
2.	"Country Revival"	2:04
3.	"Isa Rodeo"	2:39
4.	"Roughriders"	2:09
5.	"Cunnamulla Fella"	2:43
6.	"Isa"	2:58
7.	"Just Rollin'"	3:26
8.	"Corroboree Sequence / Plains of Peppimimenarti" (performed with Gordon Parsons)	4:20

Side D
No.	Title	Length
1.	"How Will I Go With Him Mate?"	3:48
2.	"Pushin' Time"	2:36
3.	"A Pub With No Beer" (with Gordon Parsons)	3:41
4.	"Camooweal"	3:04
5.	"Indian Pacific"	2:45
6.	"Are the Good Days Gone Forever"	3:32
7.	"Gumtrees By the Roadway"	3:06

Region	Date	Format	Label	Catalogue
Australia	August 1984	2xLP Cassette	EMI Music	VMP.430004/2

^ "Production Survey", Cinema Papers, March–April 1984 p76
^ "The Slim Dusty Movie (1984) – IMDb". IMDb. Archived from the original on 20 April 2023. Retrieved 29 June 2018.
^ Film Victoria – Australian Films at the Australian Box Office Archived 23 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine
^ "David Kent's "Australian Chart Book 1970-1992"". Archived from the original on 5 March 2016. Retrieved 4 April 2020.

This article related to an Australian film of the 1980s is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

This article about a biographical film is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

v t e Slim Dusty
Discography
Studio albums	Australiana Lights on the Hill Looking Forward Looking Back Travellin' Still...Always Will Columbia Lane – the Last Sessions
Live albums	91 over 50 Slim Dusty Live
Compilation albums	No. 50 The Best of Slim Dusty Country Classics The Very Best of Slim Dusty Pubs, Trucks & Plains The Den Tapes Prime Movers
Singles	"When the Rain Tumbles Down in July" "A Pub with No Beer" "Cunnamulla Fella" "The Man from Snowy River" "Lights on the Hill" "Duncan" "G'day G'day"
Related articles	ARIA Hall of Fame Australian Roll of Renown The Slim Dusty Movie soundtrack Slim and I soundtrack "Homewood"