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Barry Crump's iconic deer hunting yarn A Good Keen Man captured Kiwi imaginations. Published in 1960, it quickly sold 300,000 copies, and with Crump cast as an "ironic, laconic sort of super-bushman", made him a legendary literary figure. This excerpt from the award-winning documentary looks at Crump's upbringing and early success as a writer. The full 72-minute documentary covers everything from his fractured family relationships, violence, a life-changing incident on a bush camp, and discovering religion, to the ads for Toyota that reignited Crump's profile in the 80s.
Key Cast & Crew
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Michelle Bracey
Director
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Eric De Beus
Editor
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Barry Crump
Subject
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Rhys Jones (right) interviews actor Warren Mitchell (from British sitcom Till Death Us Do Part) for magazine show This Day in 1971. Kiwi writer Barry Crump watches on.
Supplied by Rhys Jones
Rhys Jones (left) interviews actor Warren Mitchell (from British sitcom Till Death Us Do Part) in 1971, for Kiwi magazine programme This Day. Writer Barry Crump is on the right.
Supplied by Rhys Jones
John O'Shea directs a scene from his 1964 feature Runaway on the Franz Josef Glacier. At left are Deirdre McCarron and O'Shea, while Tony Williams lies holding the camera on the right. In the background (left to right) are sound recordist Ron Skelley, camera assistant Michael Seresin, and actor Barry Crump.
Pacific Films Collection, Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision
