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Two Australian sugarcane cutters spend their annual five-month vacations in Sydney with their mistresses.Two Australian sugarcane cutters spend their annual five-month vacations in Sydney with their mistresses.Two Australian sugarcane cutters spend their annual five-month vacations in Sydney with their mistresses.
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- TriviaAccording to the book "Australian Film & TV Companion" by Tony Harrison, Burt Lancaster, Rita Hayworth, and James Cagney were originally to have starred. Lancaster's company produced the film, but he did not appear in it.
- GoofsAn obvious stunt double is thrown through the ropes at the wrestling match.
- ConnectionsReferenced in Cane Cutter (2008)
- SoundtracksGood King Wenceslas
Music traditional and lyrics by John M. Neale and Thomas Helmore
(uncredited)
Heard as background music
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Butchered
Ernest Borgnine and John Mills star in this butchering of the Ray Lawlor play about cane cutters in the off - season.
Borgnine, known at the time as the star in "McHale's Navy", is the middle aged labourer (actually about 33 years old or so in the play) past his prime and Mills is his mate.
Angela Lansbury plays herself as a widow replacing Mills' girlfriend. In the play she was more salty than high class.
In the play, "Barney" - played by Mills - was still a fairly young man (still in his mid-ish twenties).
There is an odd scene where Bubba, the young ingenue is a barmaid filling up schooners with dregs (a Scottish bar ?).
Product placements - Peters Icecream (twice), Brylcreem, Toohey Old (twice), TAA (airlines), Tooths (beer) and Bex (twice - aspirin).
Borgnine, known at the time as the star in "McHale's Navy", is the middle aged labourer (actually about 33 years old or so in the play) past his prime and Mills is his mate.
Angela Lansbury plays herself as a widow replacing Mills' girlfriend. In the play she was more salty than high class.
In the play, "Barney" - played by Mills - was still a fairly young man (still in his mid-ish twenties).
There is an odd scene where Bubba, the young ingenue is a barmaid filling up schooners with dregs (a Scottish bar ?).
Product placements - Peters Icecream (twice), Brylcreem, Toohey Old (twice), TAA (airlines), Tooths (beer) and Bex (twice - aspirin).
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- Jan 27, 2016
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- Der Sommer der siebzehnten Puppe
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- Luna Park, North Sydney, New South Wales, Australia(Location for big night-time crowd scene)
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- Runtime1 hour 33 minutes
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