They’re a Weird Mob
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Director: Michael Powell Run Time: 108 min. Rating: G Release Year: 1966
Starring: Alida Chelli, Chips Rafferty, Claire Dunne, Ed Devereaux, Walter Chiari
Building the foundations for a new kind of Australian cinema – quite literally – as Nino (Walter Chiari) spends a sizeable chunk of screen time laying bricks for a suburban house in 1960s Western Sydney, They’re A Weird Mob paved the way for a number of Australian hits in the ‘curious outsider overcoming adversity through sheer charisma and pluck’ genre.
They’re a Weird Mob screens as part of Australianarama with Frida Las Vegas for the Adelaide Cinematheque
To celebrate the release of her new book, “Australianarama”, please join Frida Las Vegas as she shares some of her favourite Australian films.
Frida says: The technicolour shenanigans of a post-WW2 Italian migrant hoping to fit into restrictive Anglo-Australian culture whilst fumbling around 1960s Sydney.