Saw it when it was on screens in Sydney

I remember watching it at one of the old cinemas at Parramatta, either the Roxy or the Astra. I knew Peter Whittle from a boxing gym I trained at and can still remember him in the fight scene with Jack Thompson. Peter was a former amateur champion and would have had a lot to do with the staging of the fight. If it had been for real he would have killed Jack.

My brother in law was a big John Wayne fan, but said it was the best movie fight he had ever seen.

The film was realistic. Australian pubs in the sixties and seventies were a lot like those shown in the film. Shame that it was Chips Rafferty's last cinema film. He died the year it was released.