Nutcase

Unless you give us five million dollars we will re-activate all the city's volcanoes with a nuclear device in the volcano's core.

– Evil Eva (Nevan Rowe)

Who put the Happy Chappy powder in the coppers' coffee?

– Evil Eva (Nevan Rowe)

...you can't open a cinema in New Zealand without going before the Films Licensing Authority, and that authority listens to submissions from all interested parties before deciding whether they are going to give you exhibition rights. For example, an exhibitor can appeal if a school is planning a one-off showing of a film to raise funds. The licensing situation has, in fact, turned into a closed shop. . . . it is normally the chains — in particular, one chain — which initiate most of the action against anybody planning to exhibit a film. . . . I thought I would apply for a licence for three locations, all live theatres which had been cinemas during the 1930s and 40s . . . The submission we made was very thorough and attracted a lot of media attention. That, naturally, incurred the wrath of the chains. The authority then adjourned, and in the intervening period we were offered a May school holiday release. 

– Producer John Barnett on dealing with archaic laws while trying to bypass New Zealand's dominant cinema chains to release Nutcase, in Cinema Papers - NZ Film Industry issue, May 1980, page 39

[The chains] turned it into a fight and the media made huge mileage out of it. There were editorials and all sorts of comments in the media about overseas-dominated chains squeezing out the local producer.

– Producer John Barnett on battling cinema chains Kerridge-Odeon and Amalgamated over the release of Nutcase, in Cinema Papers - NZ Film Industry issue, May 1980, page 39