| Caddie | |
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| Directed by | Donald Crombie |
| Written by | Joan Long |
| Based on | Caddie, A Sydney Barmaid by Catherine Edmonds |
| Produced by | Anthony Buckley |
| Starring | Helen Morse Takis Emmanuel Jack Thompson Jacki Weaver |
| Cinematography | Peter James |
| Edited by | Tim Wellburn |
| Music by | Patrick Flynn |
Production company | Anthony Buckley Productions |
| Distributed by | Roadshow Entertainment Umbrella Entertainment |
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Running time | 106 minutes |
| Country | Australia |
| Language | English |
| Budget | A$400,000[1] |
| Box office | A$2,847,000 (Australia)[2] |
Caddie is an Australian film biopic directed by Donald Crombie and produced by Anthony Buckley. Released on 1 April 1976, it is representative of the Australian film renaissance which occurred during that decade. Set mainly in Sydney during the 1920s and 1930s, including the Great Depression, it portrays the life of a young middle class woman struggling to raise two children after her marriage breaks up. Based on Caddie, the Story of a Barmaid, a partly fictitious autobiography of Catherine Beatrice "Caddie" Edmonds, it made Helen Morse a local star[3] and earned Jacki Weaver and Melissa Jaffer each an Australian Film Institute Award.
- ^ Andrew Pike and Ross Cooper, Australian Film 1900–1977: A Guide to Feature Film Production, Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1998, p 298
- ^ Australian Films at the Box Office - Report to Film Victoria Archived 28 July 2015 at the Wayback Machine accessed 5 October 2012
- ^ Musgrove, Nan (27 August 1975). "Film Role of the Year for Helen Morse". Australian Women's Weekly. Trove. p. 4. Retrieved 25 May 2013.