No Room to Run is a 1977 Australian television film about an American businessman who kills a man in Sydney.
Through Global Television, the ABC's distribution in London, they got in contact with 20th Century Fox who agreed to handle US sales for the ABC-BBC show Ben Hall.
Fox's representative, Robert Kline, suggested remaking Adventures in Paradise on location and in colour but Cameron felt the islands were too far from Australia.
[4] Robert Kline, head of Trans Atlantic, said "basically we'll be dealing with creative dimensions that justify American leads being in Australia... Sydney is comparable to Southern California.
In those cases where we don't develop a story from scratch, we're finding that scripts calling from California settings can be adapted to Australia.
The scripts were supervised by James Davern, the ABC's head of drama, and Gene Levitt, and American writer-producer-director.
She agreed provided he give her husband, Robert Michael Lewis, the job of directing one of the Australian films.
[4] Lewis says Lakin came to Australia to work on the script with George Kirgo and Joe Gantman "but we never fundamentally solved the problems.
[9] Lewis says "the film industry was very primitive" in Australia - he was happy with the cinematographer and camera operator but felt the grips, gaffers and electricians were too inexperienced and the stuntmen were "too careless" and almost caused someone to be injured.
"[10] He says Prentiss and Benjamin were "charming" but "were both taking fluid pills to preserve their match like slenderness and consequently were forever rushing to the lavatory.