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intercut with exterior shots which had to be filmed on different days. For example,
the roadside shot of the Maori hitchhiker, which shows the Ford speeding past him,
was to be juxtaposed with a trailer-mounted shot of David’s critical comment to the
driver, “You could have picked him up!”. Close attention to continuity of dress and
dialogue was crucial. But audiences expected a feature film to have a variety of
camera angles, and O’Shea and Williams were always ambitious to achieve
interesting visuals despite the pressures of the budget and the schedule.
Plate 16: O’Shea and his crew make the final adjustments prior to shooting the interior sequences in the car
mounted and towed on a trailer through Cornwall Park
These car scenes are of major importance both to the storyline and to David’s
development as a character. The businessman represents everything from which the
younger man is trying to escape, a man who measures his success by his possessions
and his commercial achievements. As Broadley pointed out, the driver’s character is
“making me react even more [strongly] away from the brittle hard attitude, and
probably one of the reasons that started me running away was that attitude.” 5
Morton’s angry reaction to David’s criticism of him – which results in a heart attack –