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'''''Mama's Gone A-Hunting''''' is a 1977 Australian [[television film]].<ref name="scott">Ed. Scott Murray, ''Australia on the Small Screen 1970-1995'', Oxford Uni Press, 1996 p103</ref> The title is taken from a nursery rhyme, called Bye Baby Hunting. The film featured many well known Australian actors of the period, including [[Gerard Kennedy (actor)|Gerard Kennedy]], [[Carmen Duncan]], and starred [[Judy Morris]]
'''''Mama's Gone A-Hunting''''' is a 1977 Australian [[television film]].<ref name="scott">Ed. Scott Murray, ''Australia on the Small Screen 1970-1995'', Oxford Uni Press, 1996 p103</ref> The title is taken from a nursery rhyme, called Bye Baby Hunting. The film featured many well known Australian actors of the period, including [[Gerard Kennedy (actor)|Gerard Kennedy]], [[Carmen Duncan]], and starred [[Judy Morris]]


It was one of a series of TV movies Robert Bruning made for Channel 7.<ref>{{cite magazine|first1=Peter|last1= Beilby|first2=Scott|last2= Murray|title= Robert Bruning|magazine=Cinema Papers|date=September-October 1979|page=517-519|url=https://issuu.com/libuow/docs/cinemapaper1979sepno023}}</ref>
==Plot==
==Plot==
A psychiatric prison escapee and his partner, decide to kidnap from a hotel and hold for ransom the baby of a wealthy family. They are unaware that the babysitter wants to keep the baby for herself.
A psychiatric prison escapee and his partner, decide to kidnap from a hotel and hold for ransom the baby of a wealthy family. They are unaware that the babysitter wants to keep the baby for herself.

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Mama's Gone A-Hunting
Directed byPeter Maxwell
Written byBruce A. Wishart
Produced byRobert Bruning
StarringGerard Kennedy
Vince Martin
Judy Morris
Carmen Duncan
Production
company
Gemini Productions
Distributed byNetwork 7
Release date
1977
Running time
96 minutes
CountryAustralia
LanguageEnglish

Mama's Gone A-Hunting is a 1977 Australian television film.[1] The title is taken from a nursery rhyme, called Bye Baby Hunting. The film featured many well known Australian actors of the period, including Gerard Kennedy, Carmen Duncan, and starred Judy Morris

It was one of a series of TV movies Robert Bruning made for Channel 7.[2]

Plot

A psychiatric prison escapee and his partner, decide to kidnap from a hotel and hold for ransom the baby of a wealthy family. They are unaware that the babysitter wants to keep the baby for herself.

References

  1. ^ Ed. Scott Murray, Australia on the Small Screen 1970-1995, Oxford Uni Press, 1996 p103
  2. ^ Beilby, Peter; Murray, Scott (September–October 1979). "Robert Bruning". Cinema Papers. p. 517-519.