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Bookmark this pageThey're a Weird Mob (1966)
Director: Michael Powell
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
The first of Michael Powell's Australian ventures, a very bizarre comedy about the prejudicial problems that face a young Italian who emigrates to Sydney. There are many delightful moments of almost Hitchcockian humour centred around social embarrassment (how to eat a meringue without making a mess), and pleasing parodies of movie styles (epic Eisensteinian expressionism at a building site). Hardly a great film, but an exhilarating and playful demolition of nationalist stereotypes.Author: GA
Cast & crew
Director: Michael Powell
Producer: Michael Powell
Cast: Walter Chiari, Claire Dunne, Chips Rafferty, Alida Chelli, Ed Devereaux, John Meillon full cast
Genre(s): Comedy
Duration: 112 mins
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