Don Selwyn

Don Selwyn

Movies for Don Selwyn...

Peach
Title: Peach
Character: Grocer
Released: July 19, 1996
Type: Movie
Lucy Lawless stars in this short which predated her rise to fame as Xena Princess Warrior. Sal is in a relationship going nowhere with Mog, a layabout who shows her no respect. A chance encounter with an easy-going female truck driver (Lawless) encourages Sal to take more chances in her life, symbolized by the purchase of a tasty but out-of-season peach.
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Mauri
Title: Mauri
Character: Old Cop
Released: July 21, 1988
Type: Movie
Rewi Rapana returns to the small country town of Te Mata after his family has left the district. His arrival rekindles old tensions as well as renewing family ties. He is seeking an identity and a permanent place to call home yet desperately hiding a secret from his past. Oddly enough there is one person with whom he finds peace of mind. She is an old woman known as Kara. A special relationship develops between Rewi, Kara and Kara’s great granddaughter Awatea.
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Mesmerized
Title: Mesmerized
Character: Joseph
Released: November 18, 1985
Type: Movie
An orphan weds an older man in circa-1900 New Zealand, then finds out he's a miser who spies on her.
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Came a Hot Friday
Title: Came a Hot Friday
Character: Norm Cray
Released: October 4, 1985
Type: Movie
Set in post-war (1949) rural New Zealand, this film traces the efforts of two con men to run a betting scam in a small town (Tainuea) already rife with illegal gambling corruption, and eccentricity.
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Trespasses
Title: Trespasses
Character: Bob Storey
Released: January 1, 1984
Type: Movie
A young woman searches for her identity by joining a "free love" hippie commune, against the wishes of her darkly possessive widowed father. The tensions of small town New Zealand and individual conflicts generated by intolerance and fear, unleashes forces of violence and betrayal.
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The Lost Tribe
Title: The Lost Tribe
Character: Sergeant Swain
Released: October 1, 1983
Type: Movie
Anthropologist Max Scarry mysteriously disappears while doing excavation/research of a lost New Zealand tribe on a remote island. His wife and his twin brother Edward are clueless as to what could have happened, a situation complicated by their city's police suspecting that one of the brothers murdered a local prostitute who was found with a strange tribal charm on her body matching one found in Max's abandoned hut. What most certainly isn't helping matters is the strange behavior of Max's daughter as she seems to have visions beyond possibility, warnings of a supernatural threat and her uncle's fate - and she's the film's narrator, to boot. Edward decides to go to the island to find out exactly what happened, but the deeper he goes into the mystery the more perilous and unknowable his world becomes, leading towards a shocking fate that raises more questions than it answers. (cont. http://view-from-the-paperhouse.blogspot.de/2014/10/the-threat-of-ancient-echoes-lost-tribe.html)
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Title: The Governor
Character: Wireum Tamehana
Released: October 6, 1977
Type: TV
Historical television series about Sir George Gray
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Sleeping Dogs
Title: Sleeping Dogs
Character: Taupiri
Released: October 6, 1977
Type: Movie
Recluse Smith is drawn into a revolutionary struggle between guerrillas and right-wingers in New Zealand. Implicated in a murder and framed as a revolutionary conspirator, Smith tries to maintain an attitude of non-violence while caught between warring factions.