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The Great Macarthy is a 1975 comedy about Australian rules football. It was an adaptation of the 1970 novel A Salute to the Great McCarthy by Barry Oakley . It stars John Jarratt as the title character (in his film debut) as a local footballer playing for Kyneton, who is signed up (or more appropriately, kidnapped) by the South Melbourne ...
Aug 4, 1975 · The Great MacArthy: Directed by David Baker. With John Jarratt, Judy Morris, Kate Fitzpatrick, Sandra McGregor. Macarthy is a country football player who is kidnapped by the South Melbourne Football Club and made a star player in the city.
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- Comedy, Sport
- David Baker
- 1975-08-04
A light-hearted movie, which was always intended as a spoof of Australia's obsession with sport, and the conflict between the corporate, amoral city and the virtuous, if slightly slow-witted country. Worth a look, but could be a bit too esoterically Australian for some viewers.
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David Baker. Reviewed by. The Great Macarthy. No one would call The Great Macarthy, which provided big screen debuts for lead actor John Jarratt and television director David Baker, a good movie but like its vulgarian peers of the time it does have a certain nostalgia appeal as a window on the last decade of classic Strine culture.
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Review by Adam Waldowski ★★½ Clearly based on a novel, as it steamrolls through plot without much consideration for whether or not a scene is necessary. It’s entertaining in its aimlessness, however, with silly intertitles and bawdy humor reminiscent of Tom Jones .
