The Intimate Stranger (unfinished film)
The Intimate Stranger was a proposed Australian feature film from director Roy Darling. The film was never completed although some scenes were shot and the cast included some of the country's finest actors. It was billed as a "psychological drama". Cast John Saul as Paul Garner Lesley Pope Georgie Sterling as Kitty Lloyd Lamble Margo Lee Kerry Norton John Nugent-Hayward Sydney Wheeler Production The movie was financed by Endeavour Film Productions Ltd, created by a group of businessmen, with the intention to produce one feature and four shorts a year. It was based on a novel by William Lynch and was advertised as: Completely unlike anything attempted before... the most interesting film project yet undertaken in this country... the characters are real people, with the authentic ring of the present day. The story unfolds against a background of the more Bohemian, sections of Kings Cross and the idyllic seclusion of the Pacific coast near Palm Beach. Leading radio actor John Saul was to play the lead, Paul Garner, "a strangely complex personality" who gets involved with an "alluring model", Kitty (Georgie Sterling). The rest of the cast was mostly taken from popular radio actors, including Sydney Wheeler and Lloyd Lamble.