The Cars That Ate Paris: 'Let's hand it over to the young people'

Title:

The Cars That Ate Paris: 'Let's hand it over to the young people'

NFSA ID

147

Year

1974

Summary

The Pioneers' ball is disrupted when the town’s young people show their anger in retaliation for an earlier incident where the mayor torched one of their cars. In revenge they unleash a storm of demolition.

CURATOR'S NOTES

The Cars That Ate Paris synopsis

Mild-mannered Arthur (Terry Camilleri) wakes up in a hospital in the quiet NSW country town of Paris after he and his brother have run off the road. The brother is dead. The mayor (John Meillon) takes Arthur under his wing, but Arthur senses that things are not right. The town’s feral youth take over the streets at night in souped-up cars. The hospital is full of brain damaged accident victims. Arthur discovers he is not allowed to leave.