Cat. No. DVDM 1658: THEY'RE A WEIRD MOB ~ WALTER CHIARI / CHIPS RAFFERTY / CLARE DUNNE. MACROVISION C-108141-9.

COLOUR                     RUNNING TIME: 107 MINS.

REVIEW: The Aussie comedy sensation from the best seller by John O’Grady writing as “Nino Culotta”. THEY’RE A WEIRD MOB is about Sydney, weird Australia.

In 1965, a sprawling growing city of three million people. Easy going, down-to-earth and hilariously funny people. In truth is a very weird mob.

Into the city and fresh off the boat comes innocent, Italian migrant Nino Culotta, who soon finds his promised scriptwriter job had vanished along with his bankrupt cousin and sponsor. A job as a builder’s labourer comes his way and Nino quickly gets an education in how to be fair dinkum Aussie, one of the “weird mob” with their outlandish language and strange ways.

Brought to the screen by the esteemed British producer-director Michael Powell with a screenplay by long-time collaborator Emeric Pressburger (under the pseudonym Richard Imrie). THEY’RE A WEIRD MOB stars versatile Italian actor Walter Chiari as “Nino” together with a whos-who of 1960’s Australian show-biz legends including Chips Rafferty, Ed Deveraux, Slim DeGrey, John Mellion, Tony Bonner, Jeanie Dryman, Barry Creyton, Charles Little, Anne Haddy and Graham Kennedy.

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