George Miller’s classic deserves its legacy, but Harbutt’s bikie film was out five years earlier – with four of the same actors, and a character called Bad MaxTo describe the 1974 Australian film Stone requires one to indulge in a certain kind of language. Expressions such as pedal to the metal, for example, or balls to the wall, or hell for leather, or cranked to 11, or crazy in the coconut, or set on fire then shot off a ramp and sent to outer space – anything that says “this movie is wild”. Continue reading…
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