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The Rollicking Adventures of Eliza Fraser (1976)

Director: Tim Burstall

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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 0000-00-00 00:00:00

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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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