It was a pilot for a TV series that did not eventuate and featured an early performance from Sophie Lee.
He is prosecuted by Kate Bradshaw, whose father, a judge, had his reputation tarnished by Perry and is looking for revenge.
In 1988 Nine's programme director, Vicky Young, said the original cut of the film "was really off the wall.
A lot of people were quite shocked by it because it was so radical; the character, the music, the script, the treatment were so different."
[3] The Sydney Morning Herald caled it "a laidback if somewhat self conscious attempt at a black comedy that works more by default than design... a quirky and sporadically gray comedy which, for all its faults, almost overcomes trietness to limp home on vitality.