Man on a Green Bike


Man on a Green Bike is an Australian 45-minute television film written by and starring Grahame Bond and Peter Weir. It was directed by Robert L. Allnutt. It was screened once, on the ABC on 28 December 1969.

Story

The film sees Mr. Maloon travelling through a series of fantasy landscapes in which he encounters the mayors of three different towns. These are the mediaeval Ackley ; Cadmium, which exists in the future and Petal Lake, a community infused with a 1930s ambience, for which James Dellit plays the mayor. Mr. Maloon escapes from each town in turn and, in the end, each mayor leaves their town to pursue him on their bicycles. He escapes them on a motorcycle.

Cast