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This production photo of Mad Max features, from left: Chic Stringer (stills photographer), Garry Wilkins (sound recordist), Harry Glynatsis (camera assistant), John Hipwell (unit manager), David...
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This production still from Mad Max (1979) shows a motorcycle stunt rider creating a perfect 'donut' burnout.
With the film's gang cheering him on the image is an almost beautiful celebration of the...
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This is a layout for a newspaper advertisement for Mad Max screenings at Birch, Carroll and Coyle drive-in theatres.
In the 1970s, drive-ins were a popular form of entertainment for families and...
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A production still of the Mad Max crew on location. Director George Miller is visible at far left wearing an overcoat.
This photo succeeds in demonstrating the production's limited budget. The whole...
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Toecutter, portrayed by Hugh Keays-Byrne, is the main antagonist in Mad Max and the ruthless leader of a merciless motorcycle gang terrorising the outback roads.
His penultimate act of savagery is...
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Jessie Rockantansky, portrayed by Joanne Samuel, is the wife of Max and mother to their son, Sprog.
The deaths of Jessie and Sprog by the Toecutter's gang are the catalyst for Max becoming 'mad' (...
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'When the gangs take over the highway … Remember he’s on your side', reads the tagline on this Australian one-sheet poster for Mad Max (1979).
The tagline is both disturbing and reassuring. This...
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Theatre program for musical Charlie Girl which premiered on 25 September 1971 at Her Majesty's Theatre, Melbourne, starring Anna Neagle, Derek Nimmo and Johnny Farnham. Program contains biographies...
