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You Only Live Twice
- Year of completion
- 2009
- Content type
- Documentary
- Format
- Short
- Genre
- History
- Duration
- 55 minutes
- Production Status
- Completed
Synopsis
The Showgirl, the Jazz man, the Spy and the Ventriloquist. 4 generations of this dazzling Australian family. Famed China watcher Richard Hughes was a larger than life foreign correspondent who achieved world wide famed with his scoop on spies Burges and Maclean and was fictionalised in the James Bond book You Only Live Twice. His son Richard is an acclaimed jazz pianist; grand daughter Christa is a performer and former lead singer of the scandalous band Machine Gun Fellatio. This is a family history like no other.
Cast and Crew
Producer
Ruth CullenDirector
Brendan YoungWriter
Brendan YoungCast
Christa Hughes, Richard Hughes, Dick HughesAwards
2010 — Australian Film Institute