Tommy Lewis had never had any acting experience when he was cast as this film's lead character Jimmie Blacksmith.
Though a critical success around the world, this film was commercially unsuccessful at the box-office in Australia.
This picture was one of fifty Australian films selected for preservation as part of the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia's Kodak / Atlab Cinema Collection Restoration Project.
This film is based on an actual true incident.
When first classified by the Australian Film Censorship Board, this film garnered an R-rating, restricted to persons 18+ and over. The rating was appealed, and the Australian Films Board of Review over-turned this rating and the film was re-classified with an M rating, suitable for persons 15+ and over.
Thomas Keneally: This film's source novelist and screenwriter as a Cook. Keneally had previously appeared in the same director's The Devil's Playground (1976) as Father Marshall.
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By what name was The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith (1978) officially released in Canada in English?
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