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Line 36: ==Production== The idea of doing a Raymond Chandler-type story set on the Gold Coast came from Denny Lawrence. His original idea was to have an ex -police officer working as a private investigator who investigated a quasi-religious commune run by a charlatan that ended with the deaths of many of the communes' followers. Then the [[Jonestown Massacre]] happened and Lawrence backed away from this idea.<ref name="denny">Christine Cremen, "Denny Lawrence", ''Cinema Papers'', May–June 1983 p 113-115</ref> He then pitched the idea to Bob Ellis, who liked it and the two of them agreed to work together.<ref name="david">[http://www.sbs.com.au/ondemand/video/11713091662/Writer-Director-Bob-Ellis David Stratton interview Bob Ellis at SBS Movie Show]. Retrieved 28 March 2015</ref> They always envisioned Ray Barrett in the lead role as the private eye Stacey and the three of them got some money from the NSW Film Corporation to go up to Surfers Paradise for a week to research and write the script.

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