Yeah. That’s Rex Harrison. A Brit. I’ll explain. The traditional trailer is here. Man suspected of wanting to kill his wife. How unusual. Call Miss Marple. Only possible Aussie difference could be, well, we’ll get to that.
No, I’m not going to wait. I know better. I’ll produce the list now.
Rake He’s the Rex Harrison from down under everywhere. Not a conductor trying to kill his wife. A barrister trying to keep from killing himself by accident or misadventure. Come to think of it, also a conductor of sorts. Some US network tried to duplicate it, but you can’t make the orchestration of drugs, gambling, wanton promiscuity, and legal brilliance work if you don’t have some kind of ultimately suave center. Greg Kinnear wouldn’t know that center if it hit him in the face. Richard Roxbrough surfs on that center.
Miss Fisher’s Mysteries. Well, gee. She’s a rich, promiscuous, flapper detective. What else do you want? Okay. Her duds are lovely, her car is a Hispano Suiza, and there are, as far as I can recall, nude scenes. Clever. With good music.
The Strip. They don’t pretend. They’re cops on Australia’s Gold Coast. Constantly hot and constantly on the case. More fun than most US cop shows put together.
The Castle. See the clip in the older post. Might remind you of the American Dream.
100 Bloody Acres. A typically Australian twist on the horror movie genre. Biggest surprise? Happy if unsettling ending.
Snow Town Murders. What’s it really like to grow up and become a serial murderer? No sheets of lightning. Just increments of pain. Well done if a bit slow.
Unfinished Sky. American romances involve small talk and sudden lurches between the sheets. This one’s different. I know it’s useless to be patient. But try.
Under Hill 60. See the video in the post before. I’m not over WWI yet either.
Lore. Also discussed previously. But you probably didn’t know it was Aussie.
MacLeod’s Daughters. Australia’s version of the old western series Bonanza. Only instead of a bunch of gun-toting guys, you’ve got a bunch of boob-thrusting gals. I know which I like better. Longest running series in Australia…
Dead Calm. The ultimately scary movie that made Nicole Kidman a star.
The Road Warrior. I don’t need to defend Mel Gibson. He’s the Road Warrior. He’s supposed to have a bad attitude. So do I.
None of which explains the greatest actress of our time, an Aussie named Cate Blanchette.
Or Russell Crowe, Hugh Jackman, Nicole Kidman, Geoffrey Rush, Chris Hemsworth, Toni Collette, Heath Ledger, Naomi Watts, Hugo Weaving, Simon Baker, Eric Bana, et cetera, et cetera.
Okay. I also loved the movie where the American killed the Englishman in Australia. But that’s only because I’m a racist chauvinist bastard.
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I want to be like Miss Fisher, she does it all so well.
Mac’s daughters were special lessons in women doing things their way, not like men , but female through and through. Doing what needs to be done.Being strong, fair, honest and beautiful. No vagina whiners there!
Quigley Down Under is on the shelf to be watched when/anytime we have had enough “wimpy male” showing on that little screen. I want to run away with Quigley almost as much as I want to ride the trail with John Wayne!
I guess I just like the portrayal of real “Man”. Work hard, play hard, stand tall and shoot straight!
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Sound like fun, most of them. In a grisly sort of way, some.
Netflix has apparently never heard of Unfinished Sky however, and instead offered me only an Unfinished Song and an Unfinished Life, which someow did not seem like particularly suitable alternatives. I ordered Dead Calm, The Snowtown Murders and Lore.
We in Hawaii love Australia and Australians. Go there as often as possible because it’s a mere ten-hour flight from here so it’s almost survivable. They vacation here in the tens of thousands annually, too — get extraordinarily drunk and fall off hotel balconies into swimming pools. No one judges. They’re Aussies.
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Hmmmm. Unfinished Sky is on Netflix here. How I remembered the title. Are they discriminating against you based on geography? Wouldn’t put it past them these days.
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