Plot Introduction
A 5-year-old girl named Dot is lost in the outback after chasing a hare into the wood and losing sight of her home. She is approached by a red kangaroo who gives her some berries to eat. Upon eating the berries, Dot is able to understand the language of all animals, and she tells the kangaroo her plight. The kangaroo, who has lost her own joey, decides to help little Dot despite her own fear of humans. The book is filled with criticism on negative human interference in the wild in 1884.
| Dot and the Kangaroo | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Yoram Gross |
| Produced by | Yoram Gross |
| Written by | Yoram Gross John Palmer |
| Based on | novel by Ethel C. Pedley |
| Starring | Lola Brooks Joan Bruce Barbara Frawley Peter Gwynne Ron Haddrick Ross Higgins Richard Meikle Spike Milligan June Salter |
| Music by | Bob Young John Palmer Marion Von Alderstein |
| Studio | Yoram Gross Films |
| Distributed by | Hoyts (theatrical) Hen's Tooth Video Family Home Entertainment |
| Release date(s) | 15 December 1977 (1977-12-15) |
| Running time | 86 mins |
| Country | Australia |
| Language | English |
| Budget | A$250,000 |
Read more about this topic: Dot And The Kangaroo
Famous quotes containing the words plot and/or introduction:
“We have defined a story as a narrative of events arranged in their time-sequence. A plot is also a narrative of events, the emphasis falling on causality. “The king died and then the queen died” is a story. “The king died, and then the queen died of grief” is a plot. The time sequence is preserved, but the sense of causality overshadows it.”
—E.M. (Edward Morgan)
“We used chamber-pots a good deal.... My mother ... loved to repeat: “When did the queen reign over China?” This whimsical and harmless scatological pun was my first introduction to the wonderful world of verbal transformations, and also a first perception that a joke need not be funny to give pleasure.”
—Angela Carter (1940–1992)