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The Rollicking Adventures of Eliza Fraser (1976)
Director: Tim Burstall
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
Beware rollicking heroines, especially from the perpetrator of Stork and Alvin Purple. The factual history of Eliza Fraser (shipwrecked and conscripted as a member of an aboriginal tribe) is thrown away in a lumberingly burlesque period romp about a lady with a roving eye, and a pompously straitlaced husband, who becomes involved in a farce of lusty humiliations before ending up peddling a spicy account of her adventures in carnivals. Moments of bizarrerie escape the general heavy-handedness, but the more serious purpose evident in David Williamson's script - of confronting sexual attitudes and hypocrisies - doesn't get a look in.Author: TM
Cast & crew
Director: Tim Burstall
Producer: Tim Burstall
Cast: Susannah York, Noel Ferrier, John Waters, Trevor Howard, John Castle, Bill Hunter full cast
Genre(s): Period/Swashbucklers
Duration: 112 mins
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