On Guard is a 1984 Australian film directed by Susan Lambert. It was filmed with a largely female crew and a budget of $142,000. It features music from Stray Dags, an all female band that has co-star Mystery Carnage on vocals and percussion.
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Synopsis
Four women set out to destroy a reproductive engineering program.
Cast
Liddy Clark as Amelia
Jan Cornall as Diana
Kerry Dwyer as Adrienne
Mystery Carnage as Georgia
Reception
Anna-Maria Dell'Oso in the Sydney Morning Herald wrote "On Guard maintains a dark and relentless seat-gripping pace. With a chillingly beautiful music score written and played by The Stray Dags, On Guard is thought-provoking, urgent and witty." The Age's Buffs' choice column says that it "cuts across genre boundaries and raise important current issues." The Canberra Times' Dougal MacDonald ponders "One cannot but wonder about the sort of film that would have resulted if they had been given enough screen time to develop the plot to the extent it is capable of sustaining and to tie off those loose ends."