The Club (1980)

Awards
- 7 nominations

Top cast43

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Jack Thompson

Laurie Holden

Graham Kennedy

Ted Parker

Frank Wilson

Jock Riley

Harold Hopkins

Danny Rowe

John Howard

Geoff Hayward

Alan Cassell

Gerry Cooper

Maggie Doyle

Susy

Lou Richards

Commentator

Toni-Gay Shaw

Toni Rodgers - Stripper

Jack Harris

1st Club Official

Frank Raggatt

2nd Club Official

Jim Cain

3rd Club Official

Gary Files

2nd Football Commentator

Ed Turley

Tony

Scot Palmer

Newspaper Reporter 1…

Ron Carter

Newspaper Reporter 2

Nick Harvey

MC at Ballroom

Ann Henderson-Stires

Geoff's Sister
(as Ann Henderson)

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Trivia
Former Collingwood Football Club captain and footy commentator Lou Richards, who appears in this film, once said of this movie: "'The Club' is about the hangers-on, the end of loyalty, the coming of professionalism, big business, and transfer fees. It's about each and every club in the Victorian Football League - and about rugby, soccer, and baseball, too."

Goofs
In the movie's end credits, Bob Davis is misspelt as 'Bob David'

Quotes
Jock: [referring to Geoff] He's been up his mum and his legless sister and he thinks he's killed his old man!

Connections
Featured in The Club: Complete ABC Radio Adaptation (1985)

Soundtracks
Up There Cazaly
(uncredited)
Composed by Mike Brady
Performed by The Two-Man Band (Mike Brady and Peter Sullivan)

Amusing take on the Aussie macho style and mores

I saw this when I was a teenager in the '80s when it was aired by the Beeb. It is an amusing and droll take on the '70s Aussie macho style. Mustachioed fairhaired Jim Thompson is highly professional as the coach. The abundant sun and light of Australia are astonishing. It is a stablemate to 'Goodbye Pork-pie' (1981) the hilarious and adventurous New Zealand road-movie.