Filmed in the Clare Valley, Gladstone and the Flinders Ranges in South Australia, this prison movie was inspired by the true life prison riot at Bathurst Jail in 1974 and its subsequent Royal Commission into New South Wales Prisons.
Bryan Brown
as China Jackson
Max Phipps
as Norton
Dennis Miller
as Redford
Gary Waddell
as Dave
Phil Motherwell
as Alby
Michael Gow
as Andrew
Edward Robshaw
as Partidge
Tex Morton
as The Govenor (as Robert 'Tex' Morton)
Ray Marshall
as Chalmers
Syd Heylen
as Old Bob
Paul Sonkkila
as McIntosh
Robert Noble
as Riley
