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This movie was one of the first two films financed and made by the Queensland Film Corporation. The other was Final Cut (1980).

Promotional material for this film such as movie posters formed a pair of hand-cuffs out of the two letter "O"'s in this film's 'Touch and Go' title logo. This was actually the first of two Australian films to do this around 1980-1981, the other movie being Hoodwink (1981).

This movie's working title was 'Friday the Thirteenth'.

This picture's title was changed to 'Touch and Go' when the producers, including John Pellatt, learned that Hollywood was making a movie called Penktadienis, 13-oji diena (1980).

Publicity for this movie boasted that it had the strongest lead female cast yet assembled for an Australian film. This movie headlined a sextet of famous Australian actresses: Wendy Hughes, Chantal Contouri, Carmen Duncan, Jeanie Drynan, Liddy Clark and Christine Amor. These six Australian actresses, all aged in their late twenties or thirties, were all in the prime of their careers when they made this movie.

First acting role in a theatrical movie for Australian singer Jon English. English plays a gardener called Frank Butterfield.

Final film as a producer for John Pellatt.

This was the last theatrical movie acting role for Australian singer Jon English until English played Phil Wehner in Walk the Talk (2000) about twenty years later.

This movie features a heist conducted by six women who perform the robbery wearing scuba swim-masks and swim-suits.

This film is notable for its catchy title song 'Touch and Go' sung by Australian singer Jon English. The song featured on his 1981 album 'Inroads', his ninth. English also wrote this movie's soundtrack, the first and only time he has been a film's composer.

David Stratton in his book 'The Last New Wave' said that this movie was "... a production plagued by flood and bushfire".

All the night scenes that feature in this film were not actually filmed in Queensland where the movie is set but were shot in Sydney, New South Wales.

The production shoot for this film went for two months.

Actress Wendy Hughes once said that there was virtually no time for rehearsals on this movie, just a few days for them.

Scenes set on Captain Cook Island on the Barrier Reef were not actually filmed there but were instead shot at Marroochydore, Queensland which double for the exotic gold coast isle.

This was the second Australian heist movie that was released around 1979-1980. The other was Money Movers (1978).

This movie was filmed during November and December 1979.

In an interview with this film's writer Peter Yeldham in 'Cinema Papers', Yeldham said of this film: "It is a light and entertaining comedy-thriller. The original idea was Peter Maxwell's, who is the director. The idea was to use Hayman Island and, because of Reg Ansett's [Reginald Ansett] connection with the place, we felt we could do a deal with Channel 10 and Ansett Airlines. But Ansett could never see the joke about having his island robbed. We should have known, I suppose, after looking at his photograph".

Third Australian theatrically released movie directed by Peter Maxwell who mostly worked in television. The earlier films were Country Town (1971) and Plunge Into Darkness (1980).

Wendy Hughes received top / first billing, Chantal Contouri received second billing, Carmen Duncan received third billing, Jon English, as special guest star, received fourth billing, Jeanie Drynan received fifth billing, Liddy Clark received sixth billing, and Christine Amor received seventh billing.

In every scene he appears in this Australian movie, actor-singer Jon English is seen wearing a red, black and yellow Phantom t-shirt. "The Phantom" is a super-hero character from the famous Australian comic-strip of the same name, an Australian filmed version of which was later made [See: Fantomas (1996)]. The Phantom was originally an American comic strip, created by Lee Falk, for King Features Syndicate. It was later syndicated internationally, including Australia, where it became a huge hit.