Hard Knocks is a 1980 Australian film directed by Don McLennan.

Director Don McLennan got the idea to make the film from a story in the newspaper about an ex-prisoner who becomes a model.

He wrote a script and got the money to make a 50-minute film but decided to turn it into a feature.

It was made for $35,000 and Trevor Lucas of Andromeda Films paid for post production.

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