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In 2010, the film was voted as the best expression of Australian identity. Today, it just feels like a farewell note to the Australian dream of home ownership.
Charles “Bud” Tingwell’s wife of 45 years, Audrey, died in June 1996. She’d been sick for some time, and Tingwell had stepped away from acting entirely to care for her in their Doncaster home. Following a remarkable career – he’d been the youngest announcer on Sydney radio, a fighter pilot during the Italian Campaign, a regular face in films shot in Australia during the 1940s and 1950s, a heart-throb soap star in England and a mainstay of the Crawford TV shows (as both actor and director) when he returned to Australia – roles for Tingwell had slowed up by the 1990s.
The low-budget comedy has been quoted in the high court, made Bonnie Doon synonymous with ‘serenity’ and carved itself a unique space in the national imagination
“It’s the vibe and, no that’s it, it’s the vibe. I rest my case,” Dennis Denuto famously declared in The Castle.
“It’s the vibe and, no that’s it, it’s the vibe. I rest my case,” Dennis Denuto famously declared in The Castle.