Aug 30th 

Dead Calm**                                  

(Australia 1988)
Warner Bros/Kennedy Miller. 96m. Panavision

A couple on holiday recovering from the death of their son find their yacht boarded by a psychopath.
Well acted and well crafted Hitchcockian dead calm seas thriller, with basic but fairly clear characterisation and good use of the tranquil but ironically claustrophobic setting, and some star names in the making.

Written by: Terry Hayes, based on the novel by Charles Williams.
Producers: Terry Hayes, Doug Mitchell, George Miller.
Director: Philip Noyce.
Starring: Sam Neill, Nicole Kidman, Billy Zane.
Photography: Dean Semler.
Music: Graeme Revell.

+ previously also made (and uncompleted because of the death of Laurence Harvey) by Orson Welles