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Even making allowance for journalistic hyperbole, it is possible that Alan Marshall may well have agreed with reporter Don Petersen who asserted in a 1975 interview in 'The Sun' that 'Alan is now head over hells [in love] with the film makers. And they, in increasing numbers, with him.' For a while, it looked as if Marshall, 'the patriarch of Australian story tellers' in Petersen's words, was about to become a dominant influence in the fledgling Australian film industry - or at least his writings a dominant source of material for films. |
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