The Odd Angry Shot

Harry

Bung

Bill

Rogers

'Dawson' / Dawson

Medic

Scott

The Cook

Lieut. Golonka

Black Ronnie

Isaacs

Intelligence Corporal

Sergent Major

Padre

Range Corporal

Spotted Soldier

Lieut. Clifford

Mayberry

Nurse

1st Marine

2nd Marine

Bill's Girl

Bill's Mum

Bill's Dad

Barman

Bar Girl

Warrant Officer (uncredited)

P.O. Corporal (uncredited)

Lead star actor Graham Kennedy once said of filming this picture: "This movie shows these men enduring enormous tension and then releasing it with almost desperate exuberance. When you understand, you can appreciate why they indulge in such crazy bizarre reactions off duty. This script tells it like it is - it has been a tough shoot but it had to be - a schedule that instantly transformed my last twenty-two years routine of bed at 3am and up at noon into a horror stretch of up at 5am and into an exhausted sleep by 9pm. But what we have tried to do is capture all the incredible excitement and danger and true grit commitment that faced those guys when the chips were down".

The production shoot for this movie went for six weeks.

Controversy arose in Western Australia when this movie was selected to screen at a Western Australian Royal Gala Premiere Screening in Perth for Prince Charles as part of his 1979 Royal Visit to Western Australia for its Sesquicentenary (150th) Anniversary Birthday celebrations. Then state premier Sir Charles Court canceled the event due to grave concerns over the film's use of offensive language (too many four-letter words) and nudity. In the Western Australian parliament, the then leader of the opposition said that Western Australia had been made a laughing-stock due to a 67 year-old politician [Court] stopping a 30 year old prince from watching a film that was classification approved for old audiences 15 years old and above.

In the final scene of the film, when Harry and Bill have flown home to Australia they sit in a bar and have a beer. Through the window the Sydney skyline can clearly be seen in the distance. However, the Australian SAS are based in Perth, not Sydney and it would have been to Perth that they would have been flown home to.

When notice of their leave is posted, the PA mentions Newcombe and Orantes. These are two tennis players: John Newcombe of Australia and Manuel Orantes of Spain. Newcombe and Orantes only played each other once - in 1973 (which was after the Australians had withdrawn from Vietnam and long after the SAS had withdrawn - October 1971). During their careers, Newcombe won 7 grand slams, whilst Orantes won one.

Sergeant-Major: You lot think you're supermen. Tin heroes, more like.

Harry: Bloody rain, you can set your watch by it!

Harry: Hey Cookie, do you know why they call cooks fitters and turners?