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They're a Weird Mob

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Original title

They're a Weird Mob

Year

1966

Running time

112 min.

Country

Australia

Director

Michael Powell

Screenwriter

Emeric Pressburger. Novel: John O'Grady

Cast

Music

Alan Boustead, Lawrence Leonard

Cinematography

Arthur Grant

Producer

Co-production Australia-United Kingdom;

Williamson/Powell

Genre

Comedy. Adventure. Romance

Synopsis

Nino Culotta is an Italian immigrant who arrived in Australia with the promise of a job as a journalist on his cousins magazine, only to find that when he gets there the magazine's folded, the cousins done a runner & the money his cousin sent for the fare was borrowed from the daughter of the boss of a local construction firm. So Nino tries to get a job & finishes up ... laying bricks. Nino works hard & friends with lots of locals, Nino & Kay argue a lot, Nino & Kay fall in love ... Kay takes Nino to meet 'Daddy' but daddy hates journalists, immigrants and bricklayers (he's now BOSS of a construction firm). Nino starts to win him over with his charm & determination to marry Kay.

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They're a Weird Mob

1966

Michael Powell