Trailer
Plot summary
Bradley Morahan is an Australian artist who has tired of his success and of living in New York City. He comes back to his homeland to find again the drive he had as a young painter. He moves into a shack by the shore of a tiny island in the Great Barrier Reef, where few people live. Cora Ryan has grown up wild there with her only relative, her grandmother Ma, who drinks gin. Cora catches fish in the sea and sells them to him.
Cast
- Andonia Katsarosas Isabel Marley
- Michael Boddyas Hendricks
- Max Meldrumas TV Interviewer
- Hudson Faucettas New Yorker
- Eric Reimanas An Art Lover
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Age of Consent (1969)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Helen Mirren won the part of Cora at 22, after the makers planned to cast an unknown 17-year-old Australian actress opposite James Mason and Australian diver and model Kathy Troutt was originally proposed for the role.
- Columbia Pictures cut the opening bedroom scene between James Mason and Clarissa Kaye and some of Helen Mirren's nude scenes, shortening the film from 106 to 98 minutes for UK and US audiences, even though it had passed the British censor uncut.
- James Mason met his future wife Clarissa Kaye on the film; she played Meg, Bradley's ex-girlfriend. Their scene was shot in bed while Kaye, recovering from pneumonia, had a temperature of 103 F.
- Australian composer Peter Sculthorpe's score was cut from the original release by Columbia executives who found it too unconventional, and British composer Stanley Myers wrote a replacement.
- A 2005 restoration shown at the Sydney Film Festival reinstated Peter Sculthorpe's original score and the cut scenes; it was instigated by Martin Scorsese and supervised by editor Thelma Schoonmaker, Michael Powell's wife.
- The film's source, Norman Lindsay's 1938 novel, was banned in Australia, and an earlier version announced in 1961 was to have starred Dan O'Herlihy and Glynis Johns.
