An injured Max (Mel Gibson) has returned to the settler’s camp, after his car has been destroyed. He offers to drive the oil tanker for their breakout attempt.

This short trailer for Mad Max 2 makes it very clear that the main attraction of the film is the action scenes.

It's hard to overstate the influence of Mad Max – on filmmakers, action cinema and the course of Australian movies.

Max (Mel Gibson) and the Feral Kid (Emil Minty) are alone now on the tanker. All their support crew have been killed defending it. One of the attackers has his metal claws stuck in Max’s shoulder.

A crazed joyrider (Vincent Gil) and his girlfriend (Lulu Pinkus) lead the highway patrol on an extended chase.

‘New formula Castrol with liquid tungsten conquers the outback run.’

Jack Grimsley composed the orchestral jingle for Castrol motor oil with liquid tungsten in 1962.

Football, meatpies, kangaroos and Thomson cars?

Herbert Thomson was the first person to design, build and market a wholly Australian-made car, 50 years before the first Holden.

Part of the NFSA collection is a die-cast model of a Cinesound Film Unit FJ Holden panel van, similar to that featured in the classic Australian film Newsfront.