The Cars That Ate Paris, the Glossary
The Cars That Ate Paris is a 1974 Australian horror comedy film, produced by twin brothers Hal and Jim McElroy and directed by Peter Weir.[1]
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44 relations: Aboriginal Australians, Australian Film Development Corporation, Australian New Wave, Brassard, Bruce Smeaton, Bruce Spence, Cannes Film Festival, Caravan (trailer), Chamber Made, Chris Haywood, Cinema of Australia, Comedy horror, Danny Adcock, Death Race 2000, Edward Howell (actor), EVT Limited, Film poster, Grahame Bond, Gymkhana (motorsport), Hal and Jim McElroy, Hoon, John Meillon, Kevin Golsby, Kevin Miles, Lobotomy, Manslaughter, Max Gillies, Max Phipps, Melissa Jaffer, Musical theatre, National Film and Sound Archive, New Line Cinema, Orderly, Paul Bartel, Peter Weir, Power tool, Public transport, Roger Corman, Rotten Tomatoes, Safari jacket, Sofala, New South Wales, Stanley Kubrick, Terry Camilleri, Tim Robertson.
- 1974 black comedy films
- 1974 comedy horror films
- 1974 comedy-drama films
- 1974 directorial debut films
- Australian black comedy films
- Australian comedy horror films
- Films directed by Peter Weir
- Films scored by Bruce Smeaton
- Films shot in New South Wales
Aboriginal Australians
Aboriginal Australians are the various Indigenous peoples of the Australian mainland and many of its islands, excluding the ethnically distinct people of the Torres Strait Islands.
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Australian Film Development Corporation
The Australian Film Development Corporation was an organisation created and funded by the Australian Government in the 1970s, intended to allow filmmakers in the Australian film industry to create movies for everyone to see.
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Australian New Wave
The Australian New Wave (also known as the Australian Film Revival, Australian Film Renaissance, or New Australian Cinema) was an era of resurgence in worldwide popularity of Australian cinema, particularly in the United States.
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Brassard
A brassard or armlet is an armband or piece of cloth or other material worn around the upper arm; the term typically refers to an item of uniform worn as part of military uniform or by police or other uniformed persons.
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Bruce Smeaton
Bruce Smeaton (born 5 March 1938) is an Australian composer who is well known for a variety of Australian film and television scores in all genres, including features, shorts, television, documentaries and advertisements.
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Bruce Spence
Bruce Robert Spence (born 17 September 1945) is a New Zealand-born Australian actor.
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Cannes Film Festival
The Cannes Film Festival (Festival de Cannes), until 2003 called the International Film Festival (Festival international du film), is an annual film festival held in Cannes, France, which previews new films of all genres, including documentaries, from all around the world.
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Caravan (trailer)
A caravan, travel trailer, camper, tourer or camper trailer is a trailer towed behind a road vehicle to provide a place to sleep which is more comfortable and protected than a tent (although there are fold-down trailer tents).
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Chamber Made
Chamber Made, formerly known as Chamber Made Opera, is an Australian arts organisation based in Melbourne, creating work operating at the intersections of music, sound and contemporary performance.
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Chris Haywood
Chris Haywood (born) is an English-born Australian actor, writer and producer, with close to 500 screen performances to his name.
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Cinema of Australia
The cinema of Australia began with the 1906 production of The Story of the Kelly Gang, arguably the world's first feature film.
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Comedy horror
Comedy horror, also known as horror comedy, is a literary, television, and film genre that combines elements of comedy and horror fiction.
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Danny Adcock
Danny Adcock is an Australian actor.
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Death Race 2000
Death Race 2000 is a 1975 American science fiction action film produced by Roger Corman, directed by Paul Bartel, and starring David Carradine.
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Edward Howell (actor)
Edward Welsford Rowsell Howell (15 July 1902– 20 August 1986), also known as pen name E.R. Howell, Edward Welsford Rowsell and Teddy/Ted Howell was a British Australian, character actor, radio and theatre producer, director and scriptwriter, theatre founder and drama teacher. He was notable for his career in Australia in all genres of the entertainment industry in a career spanning radio, stage, television and film.
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EVT Limited
EVT Limited (stylised as EVT) (an acronym of the words 'Entertainment, Ventures, Travel') is an Australian company which operates cinemas, hotels, restaurants and resorts in Australia, New Zealand and Germany.
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Film poster
A film poster is a poster used to promote and advertise a film primarily to persuade paying customers into a theater to see it.
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Grahame Bond
Grahame John Bond AM (born 21 November 1943) is an Australian actor, writer, director, musician and composer, known primarily for his role as Aunty Jack.
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Gymkhana (motorsport)
Gymkhana is a type of motorsport, known as Motorkhana in Australia and New Zealand and as Autotesting in the United Kingdom and Ireland.
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Hal and Jim McElroy
Hal McElroy and James "Jim" McElroy (born 6 April 1946) are Australian film and television producers.
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Hoon
A hoon is an Australian and New Zealand term describing a person who deliberately drives a vehicle in a reckless or dangerous manner, generally in order to provoke a reaction from onlookers.
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John Meillon
John Meillon, (1 May 1934 – 11 August 1989), was an Australian character actor known for dramatic as well as comedy roles.
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Kevin Golsby
Kevin Golsby (born 21 March 1935) is an Australian actor and voice-over artist, known for his iconic rich voice and seventies moustache.
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Kevin Miles
Kevin Miles (born 17 April 1929) is an Australian retired actor of theatre, television and film best known for small screen his role as Godfrey Carson in the Australian legal drama Carson's Law.
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Lobotomy
A lobotomy or leucotomy is a discredited form of neurosurgical treatment for psychiatric disorder or neurological disorder (e.g. epilepsy, depression) that involves severing connections in the brain's prefrontal cortex.
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Manslaughter
Manslaughter is a common law legal term for homicide considered by law as less culpable than murder.
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Max Gillies
Maxwell Irvine Gillies AM (born 16 November 1941) is an Australian actor and a founding member of the 1970s experimental theatre company, the Australian Performing Group.
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Max Phipps
Maxwell John Phipps (18 November 1939 – 6 August 2000) was an Australian actor, known for a number of roles in theatre, films and television during the 1960s until the end of the 1990s.
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Melissa Jaffer
Melissa Jaffer (born 1 December 1936) is an Australian actress.
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Musical theatre
Musical theatre is a form of theatrical performance that combines songs, spoken dialogue, acting and dance.
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National Film and Sound Archive
The National Film and Sound Archive of Australia (NFSA), known as ScreenSound Australia from 1999 to 2004, is Australia's audiovisual archive, responsible for developing, preserving, maintaining, promoting, and providing access to a national collection of film, television, sound, radio, video games, new media, and related documents and artefacts.
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New Line Cinema
New Line Productions, Inc., doing business as New Line Cinema, is an American film and television production studio owned by Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD).
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Orderly
In healthcare, an orderly (also known as a ward assistant, nurse assistant or healthcare assistant) is a hospital attendant whose job consists of assisting medical and nursing staff with various nursing and medical interventions.
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Paul Bartel
Paul Bartel (August 6, 1938 – May 13, 2000) was an American actor, writer and director.
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Peter Weir
Peter Lindsay Weir (born 21 August 1944) is an Australian retired film director.
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A power tool is a tool that is actuated by an additional power source and mechanism other than the solely manual labor used with hand tools.
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Public transport
Public transport (also known as public transportation, public transit, mass transit, or simply transit) is a system of transport for passengers by group travel systems available for use by the general public unlike private transport, typically managed on a schedule, operated on established routes, and that may charge a posted fee for each trip.
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Roger Corman
Roger William Corman (April 5, 1926 – May 9, 2024) was an American film director, producer and actor.
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Rotten Tomatoes
Rotten Tomatoes is an American review-aggregation website for film and television.
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Safari jacket
A safari jacket or bush jacket also known as a “shacket” is a garment originally designed for the purpose of going on safari in the African bush.
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Sofala, New South Wales
Sofala is a village in New South Wales, Australia, north-west of Sydney, within Bathurst Regional Council.
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Stanley Kubrick
Stanley Kubrick (July 26, 1928 – March 7, 1999) was an American film director, screenwriter, producer, and photographer.
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Terry Camilleri
Terrance Camilleri (born 7 November 1949) is a Maltese-born Australian actor who has performed actively in both the United Kingdom and United States.
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Tim Robertson
Tim Robertson is an Australian actor and writer.
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See also
1974 black comedy films
- Blazing Saddles
- Female Trouble
- Freebie and the Bean
- Going Places (1974 film)
- Homebodies (film)
- It Couldn't Happen to a Nicer Guy
- The Cars That Ate Paris
- The Front Page (1974 film)
- The Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat
1974 comedy horror films
- Deranged (1974 film)
- Homebodies (film)
- Phantom of the Paradise
- Son of Dracula (1974 film)
- Tender Dracula
- The Cars That Ate Paris
- The Infernal Trio
- Vampira (1974 film)
- Young Frankenstein
1974 comedy-drama films
- 125 Rooms of Comfort
- A Place Without Parents
- Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
- All Screwed Up
- Alla mia cara mamma nel giorno del suo compleanno
- Ammayi Pelli
- Antoine and Sebastian
- Badhti Ka Naam Dadhi
- Bootleggers (1974 film)
- Bread and Chocolate
- Busting
- California Split
- Claudine (film)
- Deranged (1974 film)
- Dirty O'Neil
- Ginger in the Morning
- Going Places (1974 film)
- Harry and Tonto
- Il lumacone
- Kaliyuga Kannan
- La governante
- Law and Disorder (1974 film)
- Little Malcolm
- Love at the Top
- Massacre Mafia Style
- Mixed Company
- Phantom of the Paradise
- Son of Dracula (1974 film)
- Sweet Movie
- Swept Away (1974 film)
- Tívoli (film)
- Tender Dracula
- The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (film)
- The Beast (1974 film)
- The Cars That Ate Paris
- The Front Page (1974 film)
- The Girl from Petrovka
- The Infernal Trio
- The Longest Yard (1974 film)
- The Lords of Flatbush
- The Sugarland Express
- The Swinging Cheerleaders
- The Visitor (1974 film)
- The Woman in Red Boots
- The Working Girls
- Thunderbolt and Lightfoot
- Vampira (1974 film)
- We All Loved Each Other So Much
- Young Frankenstein
1974 directorial debut films
- 27 Down
- Aap Ki Kasam
- Adventures in a City that does not Exist
- Amazing Grace (1974 film)
- Ankur (film)
- Avalum Penn Thaane
- Benji (1974 film)
- Beyond the Door (1974 film)
- Birds over the City
- Busting
- Caged Heat
- Captain Kronos – Vampire Hunter
- Dark Star (film)
- Deranged (1974 film)
- Dirty O'Neil
- Down and Dirty Duck
- Emmanuelle (1974 film)
- From Beyond the Grave
- Games Gamblers Play
- Geetaa Mera Naam
- Gone in 60 Seconds (1974 film)
- Jack and the Beanstalk (1974 film)
- Jadu Ka Shankh
- Manzilein Aur Bhi Hain
- Mashti Mamdali's Car
- Montreal Main
- Morel's Invention (film)
- One or the Other of Us
- Seizure (film)
- The Beast Must Die (1974 film)
- The Breaker (film)
- The Cars That Ate Paris
- The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams
- The Lords of Flatbush
- The Sister-in-Law
- The Sugarland Express
- Thunderbolt and Lightfoot
- Vase de Noces
- Vellikizhamai Viratham
- Whichever Way the Ball Bounces
Australian black comedy films
- 10 Terrorists
- 100 Bloody Acres
- A Little Bit of Soul (1998 film)
- Accidents Happen
- Angst (2000 film)
- Bad Boy Bubby
- Bear (2011 film)
- Brothers' Nest
- Children of the Revolution (1996 film)
- Chopper (film)
- Dallas Doll
- Harvie Krumpet
- Hey, Hey, It's Esther Blueburger
- Homesdale
- Judy and Punch
- Kill Me Three Times
- Mary and Max
- Mental (2012 film)
- Private Collection (film)
- Sheep Impact
- Spider (2007 film)
- Stranded (2005 film)
- Suburban Mayhem
- Sweetie (1989 film)
- The Big Noise (2012 film)
- The Cars That Ate Paris
- The Day Shall Come
- The Hard Word
- The Illustrated Family Doctor
- The Mule (2014 film)
- The Suicide Theory
- Those Dear Departed
- Wills & Burke
Australian comedy horror films
- 100 Bloody Acres
- Better Watch Out
- Body Melt
- Botched (film)
- Cubbyhouse
- Cut (2000 film)
- Dark Shadows (film)
- Eight Legged Freaks
- Howling III
- Little Monsters (2019 film)
- Mad Bomber in Love
- Malibu Shark Attack
- Me and My Mates vs the Zombie Apocalypse
- Musclecar
- Nekrotronic
- Outback Vampires
- Pandemonium (1987 film)
- Psycho Beach Party
- Puppy (2005 film)
- Red Billabong
- Sheborg Massacre
- Tarnation (2017 film)
- The Cars That Ate Paris
- Undead (film)
- Wyrmwood
- Wyrmwood: Apocalypse
Films directed by Peter Weir
- 3 to Go
- Dead Poets Society
- Fearless (1993 film)
- Gallipoli (1981 film)
- Green Card (film)
- Homesdale
- Man on a Green Bike
- Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
- Picnic at Hanging Rock (film)
- The Cars That Ate Paris
- The Last Wave
- The Mosquito Coast (film)
- The Plumber (1979 film)
- The Truman Show
- The Way Back (2010 film)
- The Year of Living Dangerously (film)
- Whatever Happened to Green Valley?
- Witness (1985 film)
Films scored by Bruce Smeaton
- Barbarosa
- Circle of Iron
- Departure (1986 film)
- Double Deal (1983 film)
- Eleni (film)
- Eliza Fraser (film)
- Evil Angels (film)
- Grendel Grendel Grendel
- Iceman (1984 film)
- Libido (1973 film)
- Maybe This Time (1980 film)
- Monkey Grip (film)
- Picnic at Hanging Rock (film)
- Plenty (film)
- Roxanne (film)
- Squizzy Taylor (film)
- Summerfield (film)
- The Cars That Ate Paris
- The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith (film)
- The Devil's Playground (1976 film)
- The Earthling
- The Great Macarthy
- The Last of the Knucklemen
- The Missing (1999 film)
- The Naked Country
- The Trespassers
- Undercover (1983 film)
- Wendy Cracked a Walnut
Films shot in New South Wales
- Adoration (2013 film)
- Amrutharamam
- Aquaman (film)
- Aquamarine (film)
- Back of the Net
- Black Site (2022 film)
- Black Water (2007 film)
- Bliss (1985 film)
- Bondi Tsunami
- Canopy (film)
- Children of the Corn (2020 film)
- Children of the Revolution (1996 film)
- Emu Runner
- Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
- Hostage (1983 film)
- In Vitro (film)
- Interceptor (film)
- Kangaroo Jack
- Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes
- Long Weekend (1978 film)
- Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome
- Mental (2012 film)
- Mullet (film)
- My Pet Dinosaur
- Newcastle (film)
- Primal (2010 film)
- Rapa-Nui (film)
- Ride a Wild Pony
- Sardaar Ji 2
- Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
- Sidecar Racers
- Stealth (film)
- Summer City
- Superman Returns
- The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
- The Black Balloon (film)
- The Cars That Ate Paris
- The Dish
- The Facts of Life Down Under
- The Goddess of 1967
- The Inbetweeners 2
- The Merger (film)
- The Munsters' Scary Little Christmas
- The Slim Dusty Movie
- The Thin Red Line (1998 film)
- Tomorrow, When the War Began (film)
- Unbroken (film)
- Wake in Fright
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cars_That_Ate_Paris
Also known as Cars That Ate Paris, The Cars That Eat People.