Greenes Please don't spend money on this.

Numerootno A story that's too fascinating to pass by...

Guillelmina The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

Delight Yes, absolutely, there is fun to be had, as well as many, many things to go boom, all amid an atmospheric urban jungle.

Chase_Witherspoon After a member (Keays-Byrne) of the well-hard bikie gang known as the Grave Diggers witnesses a political assassination whilst in an LSD induced haze (and consequently fails to recall the event until much later), his companions are systematically murdered. Motorcyle detective Stone (Shorter) is reluctantly accepted to embed with the gang until the culprit is caught. Fearless leader the Undertaker (director, creator, star Harbutt) takes a temporary shine to Stone, allowing him into the gang's inner sanctum where Stone learns their origins and the fabric that binds them in their cause. Meanwhile, sinister interests plot their demise.Technically creative (the title sequence is a highlight), the performances range from amateurish (e.g. Shorter as the title character) to inspired (Keays-Byrne as the macho Toad) and the supporting cast is peppered with future talent that should be familiar to Australian audiences (e.g. Bill Hunter, Rebecca Gilling, Helen Morse, Garry McDonald, Helen O'Connor). There's an awful lot of bare backsides (male & female) exposed here (which was a feature of Australian movies in the seventies), and in one memorable scene, the gang descends into the waves sans clothes for a mass skinny dip (so expect T&A and a few pickle shots).At times ultra-violent (a couple of severe beatings and a decapitation) yet strangely sincere, depicting the bikies as essentially loyal individuals attracted to one another through disadvantage and troubled life experiences. Great location work of Sydney will serve as nostalgia for locals, and not necessarily a picture just for motorcycle enthusiasts. I saw the 90-odd minute edit (as opposed to the full 132 minute version) in which a couple of scenes looked chipped and consequently lacked narrative context, but this didn't diminish the overall enjoyment of what is an important film in the maturity of Australia's motion picture industry and probably inspired "Mad Max" a few years later.

ferdinand1932 Stone is one of the worst movies ever made: inept direction; bad (funny) dialog, low production expertise and values, bad editing and endless boring sequences of motorcycles as if a bike on a road is interesting cinema. Yes, there is a big stunt, but that does not make a film.The movie is a boring and unintentionally funny, ridiculous counter culture trip that owes much to Easy Rider without a Hopper or Nicholson.Stone's special sentimental place in Australia must be due to the audience's thrill at seeing their own on film. Some movies should be banned to save a country total humiliation - and Stone is one of them.

mancunian4510 This movie did become something of a cult classic in the 70's, unlike a lot of people passing comment, I remember it well. Just to clarify something one of your other members had stated.....bikers did like the movie with cinemas in all capital cities being swamped by bikers. I was in Adelaide at the time and clearly recall Rundle Street, before it became a mall, with bikes on both sides of the street from King William Street to Pulteney(?). Some things fade over time, maybe the movie will be one of them but it brings back fond memories of my youth, mispent that it was.

ksaelagnulraon Apparently a "cult favourite" all over the world, STONE is a low-budget crime-thriller centred around a bikie gang whose members are being murdered one-by-one by a political assassin (that's not a spoiler because we're told this during the opening sequences). Before seeing this film, I expected this to be a true bikie cult classic - instead it's rather soft, with very few expletives, sex scenes, and not much violence, particularly given that it's rated "R". Unfortunately, the film became more of a "let's make the bikies accessible to everyone else" film, as they were portrayed as misunderstood alternatives (thank goodness for the climax!!). The film COULD have been a "cult favourite" but somehow I find it hard to believe that it is... Rating: 5/10