Rats in the Ranks

Rats in the Ranks
Directed by Robin Anderson
Bob Connolly
Produced by Robin Anderson
Bob Connolly
Chris Oliver (Executive Producer)
Written by Robin Anderson
Bob Connolly
Starring Larry Hand
Nick Origlass
Kate Butler
Kath Hacking
Cinematography Bob Connolly
Production
company
Arundel Productions, Film Australia
Release dates
 5 September 1996 (AUS)
Running time
 93 min.
Country Australia
Language English

Rats in the Ranks is an Australian documentary film released in 1996.

The film detailed the last weeks of the 1994 Leichhardt Council Mayoral elections.

The filmmakers, Bob Connolly and Robin Anderson (later known for Facing the Music and other projects, but already well known) were allowed access to the innermost meetings of participants including the serving mayor Larry Hand and his Labor Party opponents. Larry Hand's exposure to a wider audience spawned the character Col Dunkley in the successful Australian TV series Grass Roots, and Rats in the Ranks is regarded as a classic in its portrayal of local politics in Australia.

Awards

Rats in the Ranks has screened at more than forty film festivals and has won multiple awards, including the Silver Plaque for Social/Political Documentary at the Chicago International Film Festival in 1996, the 1996 Critics Choice Award for Documentary at the Sydney Film Festival.[1] and the Logie Award for most outstanding documentary series/program in 1998.

Box Office

Rats in the Ranks grossed $200,000 at the box office in Australia.[2]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Rats in the Ranks. The National Film and Sound Archive of Australia. Retrieved on 17 January 2012.
  2. ↑ "Australian Films at the Australian Box Office" (pdf). Film Victoria. 2009. Retrieved 20 January 2012.


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