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TVNZ’s arts programme Kaleidoscope visits production of John Laing’s film based on David Yallop’s book about “New Zealand’s greatest and most controversial murder” — the 1969 killings of Jeanette and Harvey Crewe at Pukekawa, and the subsequent conviction and eventual pardon of their neighbour Arthur Allan Thomas. A primer on film production as much as the film itself, there are visits to two locations and interviewees include producer John Barnett, director Laing, first AD Murray Newey and the recently freed Thomas who observes a courtroom sequence.

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The film is being made here today and it's my obligation to be here and to see what's happening and so I've got that rotten feeling of the memories, and I've got the good feeling of having my name completely exonerated. 
It’s not a documentary, although a lot of people think of it in terms of documentary. They always assume that’s what we are making because it is real but it is a nice combination of those things — of absolute realism, and yet it’s got to be a dramatic story.