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The Blue Lightning (1986)

The Blue Lightning poster
Directed by
Lee Philips
Genre
drama film, action film
Country
Australia
Runtime
1h 35m
Rating
6.7 of 10 from 3 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

An American adventurer goes to Australia to help a woman find her missing father. He gets caught up in a conflict over a valuable opal mine.

tensesuspensefulgrittydatedslow-burnmelancholicvisually starkdramatic

What happens

The Blue Lightning is a 1986 Australian film directed by Lee Philips and starring Sam Elliott, Rebecca Gilling, John Meillon, Robert Coleby, Max Phipps, and Robert Culp. It was created for US network television and was filmed in Broken Hill, Sydney, the Blue Mountains and Camden. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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