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Bookmark this pageThe 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
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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