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Let the Balloon Go
Directed by Oliver Howes
Produced by Richard Mason; Hal and Jim McElroy, associate producers
Written by Cliff Green
Oliver Howes
Richard Mason
Starring Robert Bettles
Janet Kingsbury
John Ewart
Music by George Dreyfus
Cinematography Dean Semler
Editing by Max Lemon
Studio Film Australia
Distributed by 20th Century-Fox
Release date(s) 16 December 1976
Running time 92 mins
Country Australia
Language English
Budget AU$400,000

Let the Balloon Go is a 1976 Australian children's film about a young boy with polio in 1917.

Plot

In 1917 rural New South Wales, a young boy with polio struggles to break free of his overprotective mother.

Cast

  • Robert Bettles as John Sumner
  • Jan Kingsbury as Mrs Sumner
  • John Ewart as Constable Baird
  • Bruce Spence as Acting Fire Chief Gifford
  • Ray Barrett as Dr McLeod
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