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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. It was the penultimate collaboration of the British filmmakers Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger .
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. The only employment he can find is as a builder's labourer.
- (1.2K)
- Adventure, Comedy, Romance
- Michael Powell
- 1966-10-13
He soon gets a job as a builder’s labourer, learns to talk and drink like an Australian, and falls in love with an Australian girl. Starring Walter Chiari, Chips Rafferty, John Meillon and Ed ...
- 1 min
- 4.2K
- Mosman Collective
They're a Weird Mob is a popular 1957 Australian comic novel written by John O'Grady under the pseudonym "Nino Culotta", the name of the main character of the book. The book was the first published novel by O'Grady, with an initial print run of 6,000 hardback copies.
Based on a novel, They're A Weird Mob deals with a similar predicament- an Italian immigrant who has moved to Sydney to work for his brother's newspaper.
- (19)
- Michael Powell
- Comedy
- Walter Chiari
Directed by Michael Powell. 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. Cast. Crew. Details. Genres. Releases.
An Italian sports journalist arrives in Australia but finds no work. The only employment he can find is as a builder's labourer. At first, he cannot comprehend the culture, but eventually he finds mateship and romance.
