The True Story of Eskimo Nell
The True Story of Eskimo Nell when screened in the United Kingdom, retitled Dick Down Under is a 1975 Australian comedy film produced, directed, and written by Richard Franklin, and starring Max Gillies as Deadeye Dick and Serge Lazareff as Mexico Pete. The film was the first film produced by Richard Franklin.
The films unlikely protagonist is a mildmannered window peeper named DeadEye Dick Max Gillies. Dick spies on a Mexican couple. The husband is very jealous and is about to discover that his wife has a lover when Dick rescues the lover, whose moniker is Mexico Pete Serge Lazareff. The worldly Pete counsels the shy Dick on his problems approaching women. Dick claims that hes waiting for an Alaskan Eskimo named Nell. Pete and Dick decide to travel to Alaska to find this fantasy woman, and they have several wacky misadventures along the way.Franklin says he got the idea to make the film when he was in Sydney producing The Jumping Jeweller of Lavender Bay and heard a tape recorded version of the poem Eskimo Nell. He thought it would make a great movie and several months later wrote a treatment. ........
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