Actually, compared to the absolute rubbish that was coming out of the US and Britain at the time (Remember "Chrome and Hot leather"? No? That's OK, no-one else does either...........) "Stone" was a great movie. Sandy Harbutt, who starred as Undertaker, wrote, produced, acted and directed the movie, and if you look close, you'll see at least half the cast of Mad Max there too.
Sandy said that because it was such a low budget movie, they had to get their extra's to work as cheap as possible, so he was happy when the Hell's Angel's offered to work for beer. problem was, they drank it all before the "Biker brawl" scene, and so forgot to pull their punches, which meant that most of the real actors were beaten black and blue. Grant Page, the stunt coordinator (and for Mad Max and most other Aussie action movies of the 70's and 80's) almost killed himself when he jumped the "Z1" (actually an old Honda twin, from memory) off "The Gap" in that most memorable scene.
In the early 1990's, Sandy donated the "Grave Diggers" colour patch to the Vietnam Veterans Motorcycle Club, after the "Stone Run", where hundreds of bikers rode from Sydney to Newcastle, retracing the route used in the "Funeral Scene". As the movie was partly about the poor treatment received by Vietnem Vets on their return to Oz, the whole thing was rather poignant, and it's a great colour patch too.
All in all, a great moment in Oz film history, and as someone who was hanging on the fringes of the Australian biker scene at the time, reasonably accurate. Yep, the dialogue is dated, but we did talk like that back in the day, so turn the volume up, and enjoy! Cheers, Terry.
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