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Plate 18: David Manning drags Tom Morton’s dead body to a place of concealment before stealing his car and
heading south
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The whole of the farm sequence, including the discovery of the body, was shot that
day. On the following day the cast and crew travelled to Wellington to film the
embarkation and Cook Strait ferry sequences. (The scripted transition – a dissolve
from the ferry tickets in David’s hands to the hands of the uniformed ticket collector
on the ferry gangway was realised effectively.) Always alert for ways both to keep
costs down and to maximise local colour, O’Shea used a real ticket collector. He had
the crew firstly film the official with the tickets in his hand, and then shoot the Ford,