 A scene in the film was shot at the opening night of the 1984 Sydney  Film Festival. The opening night film was Alfred Hitchcocks  "Vertigo" with star James Stewart in attendance (he was on a  worldwide publicity tour promoting Universals "The Essential  Hitchcock" film reissues, with the return of "Rear Window",  "Vertigo", "Rope", "The Man Who Knew Too Much" and "The Trouble With  Harry" to cinemas after decades in the vaults). James Stewart said  on stage that night that the State Theatre was one of the greatest  hed ever been to in his life 