The Winds of Jarrah is a 1983 Australian film adapted from a Mills & Boon novel. It was never released to cinemas.[2]

The Winds of Jarrah
Directed byMark Egerton
Written byMark Egerton
Bob Ellis
Anne Brooksbank
Based onnovel The House in the Timberwoods (1959) by Joyce Dingwell
StarringSue Lyons
Terence Donovan
Release date
  • 1983 (1983)
CountryAustralia
LanguageEnglish
BudgetA$2.5 million[1]

The film was financed in part by the Australian Film Commission and the Film Corporation of Western Australia.

Screenwriter Bob Ellis later called it a "shocking film.. which, would you believe, started out as a very good script and only about one sentence of it survived."[3]

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  1. ^ Paul Harris, "The Winds of Jarrah", Australian Film 1978-1992, Oxford Uni Press, 1993 p181
  2. ^ David Stratton, The Avocado Plantation: Boom and Bust in the Australian Film Industry, Pan MacMillan, 1990 p117
  3. ^ Interview with Bob Ellis, 13 August 1996 Archived 24 August 2013 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved 14 October 2012
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