Penultimate film shot featuring Australian actor
Jon Blake. About a year later after this film's shoot had wrapped in December 1985, he was injured in a car accident near Nectar Brook, South Australia after shooting had wrapped on the last day of filming of
The Lighthorsemen (1987), on 1st December 1986. Website 'Cinephilia' reports of the
Jon Blake accident and legal case: "
Jon Blake was critically injured whilst driving home on December 1, 1986, after the final day's filming of
The Lighthorsemen (1987). He sustained severe brain injuries and in December, 1995, the New South Wales Supreme Court ruled that Blake should be compensated for the loss of potential earnings as a star in the United States. After taking evidence from actors, directors, and film critics who indicated his career could have been as big as
Mel Gibson's, the court awarded him $32 million in damages. This was later reduced to $7 million after the defence appealed."