Smash Palace (1981)

Directors

Roger Donaldson

Cast

Anna Maria Monticelli, Bruno Lawrence, Greer Robson

The story

Eight years before the film's events, retired international racing driver Al Shaw returned home to take over his late father's car-wrecking yard, "Smash Palace", on the remote North Island Volcanic Plateau. In the present day, Al's French-born wife Jacqui is increasingly unhappy with Al's obsession with cars and refusal to sell the yard, and fears for the future of their seven-year-old daughter Georgie. Al spends his days drinking with his policeman friend Ray Foley, whose vintage green Ford he is renovating, and mending cars with Tiny, an older man who is his long-term assistant.

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