The script won $10,000 in a competition by the New South Wales Film Corporation for best original quality.

[1] Neville Wran presented the writer and director with the cheque.

[2] Angela Punch McGregor later claimed that: It was an excellent script.

The film was badly handled and I was miscast but I took it because I wanted the challenge of doing a comedy, which I hadn't done before.

I thought my role was well written and wasn't cardboard...