The Set is a 1970 Australian drama film directed by Frank Brittain and produced by David Hannay and adapted from the unpublished novel by Roger Ward.
[2] Paul Lawrence is a working-class man who dates Cara, sells shirts at a Sydney department store, and dreams of attending art school.
Rosefield is friends with Mark Bronoski, an artist who commissions Paul to design a set for British stage director, John L. Fredericks.
Production was highly publicised, in part due to a nude appearance by TV personality Hazel Phillips.
[1] Roger Ward later said he was unhappy with the experience: I was devastated to see the ruination of a previously polished and highly tuned script and spent my short time on set leaping in front of the cameras yelling, "Cut!
It got to the stage that the actors were ignoring the director and coming to me in a clandestine manner to ask for interpretations and the correct lines to say.
Understandably the director was angered by this and I was packed up and sent out of town on a phony publicity tour so a lot of the film went through without my input or salvaging and ended up in what I thought at the time was a 'cringeworthy state'.
[4]The cast of the film was eclectic, featuring professional actor Rod Mullinar, who had an extensive track record in the Crawford stable of productions including Homicide, Division 4 and Matlock Police and went onto appear in Against the Wind and Prisoner.
Well-known TV personality Hazel Philips was cast as lead character Peggy Sylvester by producer Frank Brittain, but was not the first choice of writer Ward, who wanted Carol Raye for the role.
The lead guy who plays Paul, was an unknown called Sean McEuan, 21 years old, soft, sensitive.
Johnson, who started drag performances at parties in the early 60's, became a Sydney club entrepreneur in Sydney's 'camp' scene, first opening Kandy's Garden of Eden in Enmore, became a partner in night club The Purple Onion, and opened Ken's Karate Klub,[10] the sauna which became Ken's of Kensington, before closing in 2012.