Stone

Stone is an Australian crime thriller about an outlaw motorcycle club whose members start being killed one by one. When a member of the gang witnesses a political assassination, the club becomes the target of a series of murders. The police send an officer, Stone, to infiltrate the group and find out who is behind the killings, though not all of the bikers welcome his presence.

Sandy Harbutt directed, produced and co-wrote the film with Michael Robinson, and also plays Undertaker, the club's leader, a Vietnam veteran. Ken Shorter stars as Stone, alongside Hugh Keays-Byrne, Roger Ward, Vincent Gil and Deryck Barnes. Made by Hedon Productions and running just over an hour and a half, it was released in January 1974 and belongs to a run of Australian genre films from that period.

Audience response has been modest but durable: on IMDb it holds a 6.3 rating from around 2,000 votes, while on TMDB it sits at 6 out of 10 from a much smaller group of users. The larger vote count on IMDb suggests the film retains a following among viewers interested in 1970s Australian cinema, without ranking as a broadly popular title.