The Squad (1981)
- Country
- Australia
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A squad of detectives works on a case. The plot gets complicated and hard to follow. The film was made as a pilot for a TV series that never happened.
slow-burntensedatedconvolutedlow-energyunpolishedconfusinguneven
What happens
The Squad is a 1981 Australian television film about a squad of detectives. It was the pilot for a series that was never made, intended to be a replacement for the TV show Skyways. It was filmed in Sydney in the first half of 1981. It first aired in Sydney on 12 November 1981 and then in Melbourne, retitled as Homicide Squad, on 18 May 1982. The Sydney Morning Herald's Garry Shelley said "I had to make a hasty decision. Should I (a) stick with it and try to work out just who was on which side of the law, or (b) go to sleep. After an hour, the latter won over." Brian Courtis in the Age wrote "Its banal dialogue and the unnecessarily complicated plot exposition are not improved by director Robert Meillon's woeful mishandling. Meillon seems to have controlled this disaster like an orchestra conductor with his hands tied behind his back." TV Week movie critic Ivan Hutchinson gave it one out of four stars and called it an "interesting thriller". (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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