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Bookmark this pageAlvin Purple (1973)
Director: Tim Burstall
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From Time Out Film Guide
Comedy about the sexual adventures of a clumsy, ordinary youth who nevertheless has a way with girls. It's pretty much what you'd expect from an Australian cinema enjoying its first phase of liberal censorship: an adolescent insistence on outraging 'decency' with a display of sundry organs, tits and bums; a story that could well have been written as they were going along; and jokes comprising a barrage of appalling double entendres. Ponderous at every level.Author: CPe
Cast & crew
Director: Tim Burstall
Producer: Tim Burstall
Cast: Graeme Blundell, Abigail, Lynette Curran, Christine Amor, Dina Mann, Dennis Miller full cast
Genre(s): Comedy
Duration: 97 mins
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