This movie is one of only three Australian movies featuring Australian country and western music pioneer Chad Morgan The Sheik of Scrubby Creek. The other's are Newsfront, and Ribspreader.
According to the DVD Audio Commentary, the salary for this movie's lead actor Bruce Spence was $8,000 (Australian).
The Australian Film Commission (AFC) financed $8000 (Australian) in script development for this film but later rejected two applications for production financing.
John Hibberd's source 'Dimboola' play is said to have been inspired from London, England readings of two plays, Bertolt Brecht's 1919/1926 short play, the comedic farce 'A Respectable Wedding' (Die Kleinbürgerhochzeit, literally: The Petty Bourgeois Wedding) and Anton Chekhov's 1889 one act play, 'The Wedding'.
It has been said that often the alcohol drank on stage during theater productions of the 'Dimboola' play has actually been real alcohol. 'Theatre People' state: "The play uses audience participation to a very high degree; audience members are greeted by the father of the bride and the new arrivals are announced to the audience. Glasses of sherry and food are served by the actors, the auditorium is set up with tables and decorated with balloons and streamers. Audience members are assigned characters and actors improvise with them during the play's fights and shenanigans. The alcohol consumed on stage is often real."
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