Bad Eggs [2003]

Writer - Tony Martin
Director- Tony Martin
Genre - Comedy/Mystery
Country - Australia
Runtime - 98 minutes

Plot Synopsis

"Somebody's on the shonk."

Ben Kinnear and Mike Paddock are detectives with the Melbourne Police force's elite Zero Tolerance Unit. When a freak accident involving a dead magistrate lands them on the front page of the local paper, Ben and Mike are busted down to uniformed duties. But when Ben discovers a strange link between the accident and the business affairs of a shady casino boss he and Mike have been investigating, the pair decide they can no longer turn a blind eye to the corruption rife amongst their own colleagues.

What Shaun says about "Bad Eggs":

"Tony Martin I've long admired. I met him when a mutual friend got him to read a script Gary and I wrote for a pilot (GSTV, about puppet aliens running a TV station who have to go back in time to sell a game show concept to Reg Grundy in order for present-day execs to rip it off). He correctly advised the whole thing was a bit 'in' but we made it anyway. I loved his film and it was a pleasure to be in it. His direction was expert. He sort of 'hosted' the making of the movie."

Additional Info:

Main Cast

Mick Molloy - Ben Kinnear
Bob Franklin - Mike Paddock
Judith Lucy - Julie Bale
Alan Brough - Northey
Bill Hunter - Ted Pratt
Marshall Napier - Doug Gillespie
Steven Vidler - Pendlebury
Nicholas Bell - Wicks
Shaun Micallef - Premier Lionel Cray
Robyn Nevin - Eleanor Poulgrain
Brett Swain - Bartlett
Denis Moore - Marcus Ridgeway
Pete Smith - Darcy

Crew [additional crew info can be found at imdb.com]
Jennie Hughes - executive producer
Stephen Luby - producer
Tony Martin - producer
Annie Maver - associate producer
Joel Pearlman - executive producer
Greg Sitch - producer
Original Music by - Dave Graney - Clare Moore

Reviews

Miscellaneous:

From the Bad Eggs Press Kit: 'Of working in Bad Eggs Shaun says:

"The prospect of working with Tony Martin and Mick Molloy was like a dream come true. I loved watching these guys on TV when I was a kid, so just meeting them - let alone actually working with them - was exciting to say the least. I was extraordinarily disappointed when we did end up meeting however. Mick was a lot shorter than I'd imagined and pretty much drunk most of the time. He tried to kiss me more than once.

'Tony was worse; hopped up on amphetamines and marching about in jodhpurs and a pith helmet screaming instructions through a loadhailer - it was like working for Eric Von Stroheim. "Act faster!!" he shrieked at poor half-dead Bill Hunter at one point. Bill wasn't even working that day; Tony was yelling at his picture in Showcast. Insane. And the way he treated the other actors; calling them "swine" and electrocuting them if they didn't visit him in his trailer and "perform" for him. I am ashamed to be associated with the film. It was like Fitzcarraldo except without so many laughs. We came to blows more than once, Tony and I. The script was no good and I told him so. I did some re-writes and vastly improved it, particularly my scenes. Bob Franklin was pretty much as I'd remembered him from the old Jimeoin days - woefully unfunny. The whole thing made me pine for the days when I worked with Julia Morris. I must say however that Judith Lucy was a delight - although I did end up contracting gonorrhea from her."