Palm Beach
Clip 3: A new day
2 min 53 sec
Taken from the feature Palm Beach (1979)
Original title classification M – this clip chosen to be PG
Availability of the complete title
Curator’s clip description
Private eye Larry (John Flaus) gets the news that Leilani (Amanda Berry) has been found. As surfers take to the early waves at Palm Beach, fugitive Paul (Bryan Brown) wakes up in his hideout on the cliffs, as the police close in.
Curator’s notes
Albie Thoms made the film for about $100,000 — a minute budget — but this aerial shot gives the film a visually strong finish, and an elegiac feel, with the song commenting on the action. The sequence suggests a timelessness of landscape, in contrast to the impermanence of the characters’ actions. Life goes on, so to speak.
Paul Byrnes, curator
