A Dangerous Summer

Building is Howard's passion, and he is so absorbed in his plans to build an elaborate resort in the Blue Mountains of Australia that he ignores certain obvious signals that his business partner is not entirely on the up-and-up. After a brush fire destroys the resort, an insurance investigator comes nosing around, whom Howard's partner deals with in a drastic manner. By the time Lloyds of London's senior investigator George Engels (James Mason in one of his last roles) arrives on the scene, Howard (Tom Skerritt) is anxious to set things to rights.

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A Dangerous Summer (aka Flash Fire) is a 1982 Australian crime film drama film directed by Quentin Masters and starring Tom Skerritt, Ian Gilmour, Guy Doleman and James Mason.

== Premise ==
Howard Anderson, a restless and discontented American, goes to Australia to team up with an old associate, Julian Fane. They plan the construction of a holiday resort.
While Anderson is a builder who takes pride in his work, Fane's only motive in building is to burn down the resort in an insurance fraud. He hires an arsonist to carry out the work.
Unfortunately, Fane's plans are triggered too soon and result in murder. Anderson, suspicious about events, forms an alliance with George Engels, an insurance investigator.

== Cast ==
Tom Skerritt as Howard Anderson
Ian Gilmour as Steve Adams
Guy Doleman as Julian Fane
James Mason as George Engels
Giselle Morgan
Shane Porteous as Sergeant Goodwin
Ray Barrett as F.C.O. Webster
Norman Kaye as Percy Farley
Wendy Hughes as Sophie McCann
Lyn Collingwood as Woman in Van

== Production ==
The film was inspired by the Sydney bush fires of the 1979-80 summer. John Seale shot footage of the fire which Brian Trenchard-Smith turned into a 25-minute film, That Dangerous Summer. It was then announced this material would be used by Trenchard Smith in a feature version of the story, to be called Bushfire. In the end, Trenchard-Smith did not direct, and Quentin Masters did with the film being produced by Peter Fox. Actor Ian Gilmour broke his leg during filming delaying production several weeks.
The film was originally budgeted at $2.3 million.

== Box office ==
A Dangerous Summer grossed $33,000 (equivalent to $130,767 in 2022) at the box office in Australia.
The film was one of four movies made by Filmco that were part of a legal action in 1985. A judge ordered eight Sydney stockbrokers to repay at least $615,000 to which they borrowed in 1981 to finance four films by Filmco: Early Frost (budget $1 million), The Dark Room ($1.1 million), For the Term of His Natural Life ($4 million) and A Dangerous Summer ($2.9 million). The films were not box office successes and the stock brokers refused to repay the loans when they matured in November 1983.

== See also ==
Cinema of Australia

== References ==

== External links ==
A Dangerous Summer at IMDb
A Dangerous Summer at Oz Movies

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