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  1. Broken Barrier is a 1952 New Zealand film. It was directed and produced by John O'Shea (director) and Roger Mirams, and written by O'Shea. It starred Kay Ngarimu and Terence Bayler, and also featured Myra Hapi Smith, Bill Merito and George Ormond.

  2. Broken Barrier: Directed by Roger Mirams, John O'Shea. With Kay Ngarimu, Terence Bayler, Myra Hapi, George Ormond. Tom, a journalist from the city, meets Rawi while writing a piece rural life.

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    • Drama, Romance
    • Roger Mirams, John O'Shea
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  3. Broken Barrier marked the first New Zealand dramatic feature to be made since 1940. Its production saw directors John O'Shea and Roger Mirams crowding into a Vauxhall with two silent cameras, one picked up "from a dead German in the Western Desert".

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  4. Terence Bayler Cast. George Ormond Cast. William Maloney Screenplay. Sydney John Kay Music. Kay Ngarimu Cast. Myra Hapi Cast. Critics reviews. Tom, a journalist from the city, meets Rawi while writing a piece rural life. However, she is Maori and her family disapproves of the relationship.

  5. Broken Barrier. 1952. 1 hr 11 mins. Drama. NR. Watchlist. A romance between a journalist (Terence Bayler) and a Maori girl (Kay Ngarimu). Mira Hape, Bill Mfrito. Alec: George...

  6. 1952 Directed by John O’Shea, Roger Mirams. A white boy… a maori girl. Facing the challenge of prejudice! Tom Sullivan, a young Pakeha journalist researching a series of exploitative, tabloid articles on “the” Maori people becomes a casual labourer on a Mahia Peninsular farm.

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  8. Ditching dialogue for 'spoken thoughts', the pioneering film examines cultural complications in a romance between a Pākehā journalist and a Māori nurse. According to O'Shea, some viewers considered it "a dirty movie" for spurring mixed race relationships.