Out of Tune (34 page)

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This line was cut from the film at the last minute but remains in the officially published screenplay that went on sale in
bookstores after the film’s release, has been reprinted four times, and remains on sale.

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I have agreed with Claire that we shall not publish her surname.

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Pritchard was a founding member of the Australian Communist Party and music lover, whom David had befriended prior to going
to London, but had passed away while he was there. ‘Father burned them all,’ David recalled. It was done very surreptitiously,
it was done very brilliantly. It was out of spite.’ … Bewildered by Peter’s perverse act, David hardly saw his father or any
family over the next three years.”