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They're a Weird Mob is a 1966 Australian comedy film based on the 1957 novel of the same name by John O'Grady under the pen name "Nino Culotta", the name of the main character of the book. It was the penultimate collaboration of the British filmmakers Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger .
They're a Weird Mob: Directed by Michael Powell. With Walter Chiari, Claire Dunne, Chips Rafferty, Alida Chelli. An Italian sports journalist arrives in Australia but finds no work. The only employment he can find is as a builder's labourer.
It tells the story of an Italian sports journalist arriving Down Under, to find his cousin’s new magazine for migrant Italians has folded. He soon gets a job as a builder’s...
Nino Culotta is an Italian immigrant who arrived in Australia with the promise of a job as a journalist on his cousin's magazine, only to find that when he gets there the magazine's folded, the cousins done a runner & the money his cousin sent for the fare was borrowed from the daughter of the boss of a local construction firm.
Based on a novel, They're A Weird Mob deals with a similar predicament- an Italian immigrant who has moved to Sydney to work for his brother's newspaper.
They're a Weird Mob is a popular 1957 Australian comic novel written by John O'Grady under the pseudonym "Nino Culotta", the name of the main character of the book. The book was the first published novel by O'Grady, with an initial print run of 6,000 hardback copies.
They’re a Weird Mob. 1966. Directed by Michael Powell. Nino Culotta is an Italian immigrant, newly arrived in Australia, and attempts to understand the aspirational values and social rituals of everyday urban Australians of the 1950s and ’60s… and assimilate. Cast. Crew. Details. Genres. Releases.
