Dead Easy
(1982)
Dead Easy is a 1982 thriller set in Sydney,
mainly around Kings Cross, about a wannabe entrepreneur George (Scott
Burgess. Scott Burgess as a leading man? Really...? The 80s were weird)
who meets Alex (Rosemary Paul), a prostitute/junkie, who he wants to make
a star. George is desperate to get a club going with showgirls being the
attraction, but he is thwarted at every turn, either by a lack of funds, a
ramshackle show and an ambitious cop who is desperate to shut him down.
George falls for Alex and tries to help her out. And a whole heap of other
stuff is thrown in with gangsters and corrupt police etc. etc. This film
is hard to pin down. It's plot is all over the place. One moment a
thriller, the next showing signs of a musical, the next a romantic drama
and then back again. It's even more jumbled than the 3rd Underbelly series
which was set on the same streets. I would love to tell how it all ends
up, but I can't figure it out. All this in only 80 minutes, including
credits. Well, the best I can say is at least it's an interesting mess of
a film.
Rosemary Paul film clip (collages below)
Helen Hampton film clip
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