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'''''She'll Be Sweet''''' is a 1978 Australian television film |
'''''She'll Be Sweet''''' is a 1978 Australian television film.<ref>At the Movies: Bertolucci brings Liv Ullmann to Brooklyn. |
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Flatley, Guy. New York Times ]25 Nov 1977: 71</ref> |
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The film was also known as ''Magee and the Lady''.<ref name="scott">Ed. Scott Murray, ''Australia on the Small Screen 1970-1995'', Oxford Uni Press, 1996 p140</ref> It was the sixth and last television film made by the ABC in association with Transatlantic Enterprises. Filming started in Sydney on 31 October 1977.<ref>[https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1301&dat=19771023&id=grdjAAAAIBAJ&sjid=fuYDAAAAIBAJ&pg=1495,7562872 Don Groves, "Hot Lips to Star in ABC Movie", ''The Sydney Morning Herald'' 23 October 1977] accessed 15 July 2013</ref> |
The film was also known as ''Magee and the Lady''.<ref name="scott">Ed. Scott Murray, ''Australia on the Small Screen 1970-1995'', Oxford Uni Press, 1996 p140</ref> It was the sixth and last television film made by the ABC in association with Transatlantic Enterprises. |
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==Plot== |
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Captain Magee is a sailor whose boat is bought from under him by a millionaire tycoon. He tries to find the tycoon with the help of the tycoon's daughter. |
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==Cast== |
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*[[Tony Lo Bianco]] |
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*[[Sally Kellerman]] |
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*[[Anne Semler]] |
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*[[Rod Mullinar]] |
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==Production== |
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Filming started in Sydney on 31 October 1977.<ref>[https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1301&dat=19771023&id=grdjAAAAIBAJ&sjid=fuYDAAAAIBAJ&pg=1495,7562872 Don Groves, "Hot Lips to Star in ABC Movie", ''The Sydney Morning Herald'' 23 October 1977] accessed 15 July 2013</ref> |
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==Reception== |
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The ''Sydney Morning Herald'' wrote that "Colin Free's script is indeed clever. He has given Lo Bianco and Kellerman some of the funniest banter heard in a long time."<ref>{{cite news|newspaper=Sydney Morning Herald|title=January 8, 1979 |
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A hilarious dig at the polo set in new telemovie|page=14}}</ref> Another critic in the same paper called it "the last (one fervently hopes) of its disastrous Pelexmovies...in this travesty of a B-rated western, an improbable script saw the improbable hero and heroine (both American let it be noted not Australian) simulating The Perils and Pauline in an improbable Hunter Valley."<ref>{{cite news|first=Clement|last=Semmler|newspaper=Sydney Morning Herald|title=Need for decent Aust dramas|date=January 31, 1979 |page=8}}</ref> |
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Another review in the same paper said " plot is improbable and unconvincing... The movie's tacit acceptance of his immorality is distasteful. Then we're asked to believe the scruffy seafarer and his shrewish captive fall irresistibly and dfreamily in love. As Bob Hawke might say, "Balderdash"."<ref>{{cite news|first=Don|last=Groves|newspaper=Sydney Morning Herald|date=7 January 1979|page=55|title=Sight n Sound}}</ref> |
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==References== |
==References== |
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Revision as of 04:59, 10 January 2020
| She'll Be Sweet | |
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| Directed by | Gene Levitt |
| Written by | Colin Free |
| Produced by | Geoffrey Daniels |
| Starring | Tony Lo Bianco Sally Kellerman Anne Semler Rod Mullinar |
| Music by | Kevin Johnson[1] |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | ABC |
Release date | 1978 |
Running time | 92 mins |
| Country | Australia |
| Language | English |
She'll Be Sweet is a 1978 Australian television film.[2]
The film was also known as Magee and the Lady.[3] It was the sixth and last television film made by the ABC in association with Transatlantic Enterprises.
Plot
Captain Magee is a sailor whose boat is bought from under him by a millionaire tycoon. He tries to find the tycoon with the help of the tycoon's daughter.
Cast
Production
Filming started in Sydney on 31 October 1977.[4]
Reception
The Sydney Morning Herald wrote that "Colin Free's script is indeed clever. He has given Lo Bianco and Kellerman some of the funniest banter heard in a long time."[5] Another critic in the same paper called it "the last (one fervently hopes) of its disastrous Pelexmovies...in this travesty of a B-rated western, an improbable script saw the improbable hero and heroine (both American let it be noted not Australian) simulating The Perils and Pauline in an improbable Hunter Valley."[6]
Another review in the same paper said " plot is improbable and unconvincing... The movie's tacit acceptance of his immorality is distasteful. Then we're asked to believe the scruffy seafarer and his shrewish captive fall irresistibly and dfreamily in love. As Bob Hawke might say, "Balderdash"."[7]
References
- ^ "The best years have been good years". The Canberra Times. Australian Capital Territory, Australia. 19 October 1981. p. 3. Retrieved 10 January 2020 – via Trove.
- ^ At the Movies: Bertolucci brings Liv Ullmann to Brooklyn. Flatley, Guy. New York Times ]25 Nov 1977: 71
- ^ Ed. Scott Murray, Australia on the Small Screen 1970-1995, Oxford Uni Press, 1996 p140
- ^ Don Groves, "Hot Lips to Star in ABC Movie", The Sydney Morning Herald 23 October 1977 accessed 15 July 2013
- ^ "January 8, 1979
A hilarious dig at the polo set in new telemovie". Sydney Morning Herald. p. 14.
{{cite news}}: line feed character in|title=at position 16 (help) - ^ Semmler, Clement (31 January 1979). "Need for decent Aust dramas". Sydney Morning Herald. p. 8.
- ^ Groves, Don (7 January 1979). "Sight n Sound". Sydney Morning Herald. p. 55.
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