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They're a Weird Mob is a 1966 Australian comedy film based on the 1957 novel of the same name by John O'Grady under the pen name "Nino Culotta", the name of the main character of the book.
They're a Weird Mob: Directed by Michael Powell. With Walter Chiari, Claire Dunne, Chips Rafferty, Alida Chelli. An Italian sports journalist arrives in Australia but finds no work.
- (1.2K)
- Adventure, Comedy, Romance
- Michael Powell
- 1966-10-13
It tells the story of an Italian sports journalist arriving Down Under, to find his cousin’s new magazine for migrant Italians has folded. He soon gets a job as a builder’s labourer, learns to ...
- 1 min
- 4.2K
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They're a Weird Mob (1966) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
Nino Culotta is an Italian immigrant who arrived in Australia with the promise of a job as a journalist on his cousin's magazine, only to find that when he gets there the magazine's folded, the cousins done a runner & the money his cousin sent for the fare was borrowed from the daughter of the boss of a local construction firm.
Learning to speak Australian is one of the many trials faced by an Italian journalist who emigrates Down Under.
- Comedy
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Nino Culotta is an Italian immigrant, newly arrived in Australia, and attempts to understand the aspirational values and social rituals of everyday urban Australians of the 1950s and '60s.... and assimilate. Michael Powell. Director. John O'Grady.
