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  1. The Picture Show Man: Directed by John Power. With John Meillon, Rod Taylor, John Ewart, Harold Hopkins. At the beginnings of this centuary a man, his son and a piano player travel around Australia showing the first silent movies (naturally in black and white).

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    • Comedy, Drama
    • John Power
    • 1979-02
  2. The Picture Show Man PG 1977 1h 39m Comedy Drama List Reviews 40% Audience Score Fewer than 50 Ratings A showman (John Meillon) tries to keep up with his rival (Rod Taylor), bringing movies to ...

    • John Power
    • Comedy, Drama
    • Rod Taylor
  3. Filter by Rating: 9/10. Silence is golden. Chase_Witherspoon 26 December 2012. Whimsical and slightly bittersweet tale of competing projectionists (Meillon and Taylor), who traverse the Australian outback, bringing the joy of motion pictures to packed theatres in the 1920's. Their rivalry serves as the backdrop to the surprisingly cut-throat ...

  4. The Picture Show Man. The Picture Show Man is a 1977 Australian film about a travelling film exhibitor (John Meillon) in the 1920s. He has to deal with the rebelliousness of his son ( Harold Hopkins) and a rival American exhibitor ( Rod Taylor ). The film was Rod Taylor's first role in an Australian film for over twenty years. [4]

  5. Film Movie Reviews The Picture Show Man — 1977. The Picture Show Man. 1977. 1h 39m. PG. Comedy/Drama. Advertisement. Cast. John Meillon (Pym) Rod Taylor (Palmer) John Ewart (Freddie) Harold ...

  6. The Picture Show Man. Very much in the tradition of costume dramas that typified 1970s Australian film ,The Picture Show Man is a likeable, though somewhat thin, "family" movie about Maurice Pym (John Meillon), the paterfamilias of Pym's Pictures, who with his son (Harold Hopkins) traverses rural New South Wales during the 1920s bringing the world of filmic illusion to the yokels.

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  8. A genial, warmly nostalgic slice of Australian movie history, immeasurably improved by having John Meillion in the lead, Picture Show Man could have been a national masterpiece if only it had a sharper screenplay, much better pacing, and properly exploited dramatic stakes. Review by Josh Bell ★★½. TCM Fest 2015: Kind of sappy, episodic ...

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