Nickel Queen

Nickel Queen was an Australian comedy film released in 1971 starring Googie Withers and directed by her husband John McCallum. The story was loosely based on the Poseidon bubble, a nickel boom in Western Australia in the late 1960s, and tells of an outback pub owner who stakes a claim and finds herself an overnight millionaire.

Hippie Claude Fitzherbert follows Meg into Perth high society and becomes her lover. Benson is exposed as a fraud, Fitzherbert deserts Meg and runs off with Bensons wife and Meg is reunited with an old suitor from her hometown.The original story was cowritten by Henry James, an Australian journalist who had worked in England since the 1930s. It was inspired by the recent Poseidon nickel boom in Western Australia. British film producer Sydney Box who had retired to Perth sent a copy of the script to John McCallum who had just finished making the TV series Barrier Reef and was interesting in moving back into features. Finance was raised from a Perth syndicate, which included the local Channel Seven and Fauna Productions in Sydney. ........

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