Black And White

Craig Lahiff
Australia/UK 2002
102 min

In late 1958, in the remote town of Ceduna in South Australia, a nine year old white girl was brutally raped and bludgeoned to death in a beach cave.

Shortly thereafter, in the presence of six local police officers, a full confession was signed by Max Stuart, an itinerant, alcoholic half-caste Aborigine, and his conviction and subsequent hanging for the crime seemed inevitable.

Craig Lahiff's 'Black and White' is a powerful dramatisation of Stuart's ensuing trial and numerous appeals, in a case which divided a nation, and exposed for the first time the rotten foundations on which Australia's most important institutions were built. (source: Movie Gazette)

Cast	Robert Carlyle Charles Dance Kerry Fox Colin Friels Ben Mendelsohn David Ngoombujarra Roy Billing Bille Brown John Gregg Heather Mitchell Garry Waddell Frank Gallacher Rhys McConnochie Vincent Ball Chris Haywood David O'Sullivan Roderic Chamberlain Helen Devaney Father Tom Dixon Rupert Murdoch Max Stuart Det-Sgt Turner Thomas Playford Rohan Rivett Roma Chamberlain Const. Jones Justice Reed Justice Abbott Chief Justice Napier Karskens
Release dates	31 October 2002 - Australia 9 January 2004 - Great Britain First shown at the Sydney Film Festival in June 2002
Video/DVD Release Date	11. February 2004 (DVD)
Awards	Australia 2003: Best S. Actor: David Ngoombujarra
Rating	M15+ (strong language and moderate violence)
Language level	not available
Distributor	Metro Tartan
Soundtrack	Cezary Skubiszewski
Genre	Drama
Notes	Another film by the same name exists (directed by James Toback) which featured an American topic in 1999. Critical Review of Black and White and its literature along with lots of detail information Eniar provides a small collection of newspaper articles.

Where to from here?

• Read about Aboriginal people and the law
• Facts about Mandatory sentencing
• The Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody