Unzipping Alvin: How Alvin Purple and Alvin Rides Again Teased Australia in the '70s

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Matt Fulton: You're listening to Monster Kid Podcast.

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Pete Iacono: Welcome to A Dingo \Ate My Movie, a podcast about

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the weird and wonderful Australian movies from the 70's,

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80's and beyond.

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I'm your host, Pete, and today I'm joined by Matt Fulton as we

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leap headfirst into Alvin Purple from 1973 and Alvin rides,

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again from 1974.

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Good morning, matt.

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How are you, mate?

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Matt Fulton: Peter, I'm good.

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I'm still recovering from my previous experience of Houseboat

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horror.

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Pete Iacono: All right, so a few quick thoughts, opening

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thoughts on these two movies, like what a strange double this

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is, and I know I was just looking this morning at a

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trailer for Melvin's Son of Alvin and I was like oh, should

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we have done that one.

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And when I looked at the trailer I was like no.

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Matt Fulton: Oh, the fact that you watched the trailer.

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I'm not even brave enough, especially after watching the

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second film in this trilogy.

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I guess you would call it.

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Pete Iacono: Did you know there was also a TV series.

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Matt Fulton: Yes, there is one episode floating around on

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YouTube.

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Pete Iacono: Yeah, yeah, it's amazing, the series I saw some

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video of I'm trying to remember who it was on ABC.

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It was like on one of those ABC comedy shows or something like

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that.

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Talking about the episode, all I can remember seeing with the

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clips of the episode this show was Alvin Purple in a bath with

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a woman in the bath was full of spaghetti.

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Oh and yeah, it was quite gross .

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Matt Fulton: What a waste of spaghetti.

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Pete Iacono: He was being pursued by some criminals or

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something, I think.

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If I remember, the main criminal guy was I forgot the

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actor's name, but he was the boyfriend of the daughter of Ted

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Bullpit in Kingswood Country.

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I'm trying to remember the actor's name now.

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Matt Fulton: Not Lex Marenos, that's it.

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That's it.

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Why is it?

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Pete Iacono: That's what I think it was.

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Yeah Well, that's who it looked like to me, so where did you

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watch it?

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Just talking about where people can watch these movies.

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Matt Fulton: Broly, which is part of the Umbrella's streaming

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service, and also on DVD, which is through Umbrella

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Entertainment.

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Pete Iacono: So we watched it on Netflix, funnily enough and

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yeah, I've got both the DVDs as well I watched Alvin Purple on

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Netflix.

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I don't think Alvin Rides again is streaming anywhere, or is it

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?

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Matt Fulton: on.

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Pete Iacono: Broly?

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It's not, is it?

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I had a bit of a look and I was surprised that the Broly don't

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have it with Alvin Purple, which is quite odd If people don't

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know about Broly.

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I know I've spoken about it a little bit on the last couple of

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episodes.

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It's a streaming service from Umbrella which is really great

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if you want to catch up on Australian film and TV shows.

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They have all sorts of stuff on there.

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It's a really good streaming service.

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I've got to stop talking about it because they're not paying me

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, but I just like it anyway.

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I like it anyway and if you're watching a lot of Australian

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films, it's a great place to watch it.

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I think it's only available in Australia, right, but a VPN is

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your best friend if you're living overseas.

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Alvin making me fly by Alvin making me lay by Alvin making me

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fly, all right.

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So we'll start by talking about Alvin Purple.

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So Alvin Purple is a classic Australian sex comedy that

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became a cult favorite from the 1970s.

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Film centers around Alvin Purple, played by Graham

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Blundell, a young man whose irresistible appeal to women

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seems more a curse than a blessing.

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Indeed, despite his own indifference towards sex which

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sounds weird Alvin finds himself relentlessly pursued by women,

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leading to a series of comedic and often awkward encounters.

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The movie humorously explores themes of sexual liberation and

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societal norms through Alvin's escapades and misadventures.

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Supporting Blundell is a cast that includes Abigail very, very

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short appearance Lynette Curran and Jackie Weaver, which is

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she's got an interesting little part under the direction of Tim

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Burstle.

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The film satirizes the sexual revolution of the era, poking

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fun at attitudes towards masculinity and femininity.

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Its candid portrayal of sex and humor ensured its place as a

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memorable piece of Australian cinema history.

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The film had a budget of $200.

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It was absolutely panned by critics but it actually went on

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to earn $4.7 million in 1973, which is equivalent to I think

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they were saying, about $46, $47 million these days.

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So it's actually it's really amazing and obviously the public

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didn't listen to the critics very much and I think at that

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time it would have been one of those movies in 73 that you

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could see a lot of couples in there, from, like you know, 19

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to their mid 20s, maybe under 30 , having a night out seeing that

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movie.

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It would have been pretty popular, I think, and I think it

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would have been those one of those movies that would have

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been talked about.

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Tried to find some original kind of you know reviews and that,

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and every time I typed in, like you know, into Google, original

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1973 reviews, alvin Purple, we just give me Alvin Purple

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reviews.

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So I probably should have dug harder into like Sydney Morning

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Herald archives or something like that.

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But I can tell you now the critics hated the movie and a

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lot of people just reading through some of the IMDB reviews

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etc.

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They a lot of people don't like this movie as well.

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Yeah, what were your thoughts initially?

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Matt Fulton: Well, in my notes here and I'm going to say this

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right up and that is my first note is NorgFest 55 seconds into

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the movie.

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True, so when you set off within the first minute of the

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film, you, that sets the premise really.

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Yeah, absolutely Just like a starts off as a bit of a fantasy

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, like he's mind drifting.

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I think he's a well, no, I was going to say a ladies man.

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And then the reality.

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So when that kicks in, it's just like, oh, what are we in

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for for this?

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It's just in his own world.

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Some of it didn't really make sense to me, like I know it's

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not meant to make sense.

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It's not the best movie script or what it or the story like in

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the world.

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And wasn't this the film that kind of started the whole

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revolution of Australian film in regards to, you know, when the

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government decided to invest into the Australian film

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industry?

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Pete Iacono: This was one of the .

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I don't think this one got the funding.

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But so the thing about this film is one of the first R-rated

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films released.

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Once they bought in the R certificate in 1970, one of the

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first but definitely took advantage of that, like so when

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you think about it, we had I think Tim Burstle's stalk was in

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71,.

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I think we had Avengers of Barry Mackenzie in 72, and then

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this film in 73.

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So I think it was.

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It was kind of around that era and we had a lot of these

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sexploitation sort of Australian movies and we had.

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What else did we had?

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We had Lobito, which I think was another Tim Burstle film, or

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Tim Burstle it was.

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I don't know if you've ever seen Lobito, I only remember the

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ads.

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I've never seen it and I don't think it's available anywhere.

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It's basically just like a four part, like you know, four

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separate stories, the anthology thing, but it's all based around

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sex and stuff like that.

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Matt Fulton: Was that the?

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Is that the ABC of?

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Pete Iacono: No, that's different again.

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That's different again.

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So that's, that's completely different again.

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Abc of love and sex, or whatever it's called.

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Matt Fulton: And Australia, and also Australia After Dark.

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Pete Iacono: Yeah, yeah, so they were.

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What's a guy's name that made those John Lamond?

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That's who it was.

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Matt Fulton: John Lamond.

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Pete Iacono: that's it, yeah yeah, yeah, he did.

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He did quite a few of these Like he did this one.

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He did Australia After Dark.

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Felicity was one of his.

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He did Nightmares, which we did previously, and Nightmares is

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kind of like a Jialo Australian Jialo movie with lots of sex and

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nudity.

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So, yeah, so there was definitely, it was definitely a

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time for this.

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And then, I think, another one they talk about, I don't know,

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on the DVD, on the Alvin DVD there's like a 43 minute or 45

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minute promotional documentary called Inside Alvin Purple,

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which, incidentally, was directed by Brian Trenshard

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Smith, and they were saying that it was kind of like they were

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talking.

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When they were talking about this movie, though, they were

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inspired by things like libido but also things like there was

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this movie called Bedroom Mizzurka, which was massive in

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the 70s, early 70s, which was a foreign sex film, and it had the

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same sort of thing.

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It was like three or four different stories, like an

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anthology thing, and that was kind of a big thing as well and

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they kind of, you know, sort of went off the back of that.

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So I think in the early 70s, going back to what you were

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saying, I think we're in this whole period of not just the R

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certificate we were about to go into the whole.

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You know government grants for films, things like that.

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But we also had this kind of like this sexual awakening in

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Australia.

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I think the subject became less taboo and ended up on the

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screen a lot more.

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And none of these movies are really.

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You definitely wouldn't consider them porn, and you're

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probably.

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They're probably not even.

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You wouldn't even really think they're soft-core porn.

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Right, and it's not.

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It's not case of the smiling stiffs kind of stuff you know

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and it's, yeah, it is gratuitous , no doubt.

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Yeah, absolutely.

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Matt Fulton: But yeah, it is that borderline of it's

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soft-core porn.

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But then as soon as they add like a little comedic reference

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or something, that a song that kind of resembles Benny Hill,

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and it's like, oh no, it's not a soft-core porn, it's a comedy,

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and I feel like that that kind of breaks the scene when you

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just hear this.

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Pete Iacono: I think Tim Burstle said in this little documentary

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that, or in one of the interviews there's also some

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interviews on the disc as well and I think he was saying that

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he tried to put some sort of humour about every minute or so

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into the movie just to remind people that it's a comedy.

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So I think he kind of thought, okay, if we just have all the

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sex stuff and not many laughs, people are just going to think

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it's a sex movie.

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That, or if I put in like boing type Especially in the second

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movie which we'll get when they're getting that chase on

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the ferry, which is really strange sound effects.

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It's a funny movie, like there's a few things right.

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Like the movie is apparently, if you listen to Tim Burstle, a

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kind of like a play on the whole early seventies sex therapy

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thing which was apparently a big deal.

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I don't remember, I was only 11 .

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He sort of said well, are sex clinics a new form of sex

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therapy or are they just an old business of prostitution, like

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the old reasons of prostitution?

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And that I think that comes out in the movie right when you've

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got this psychiatrist guy who is effectively making stag movies

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using Alvin Circle yeah, and it's like okay, so are you being

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a pornographer or are you just being an absolute sleazebag?

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I think the other thing about this movie that's interesting is

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like it's almost like Alvin Purple is abused in a way, if

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you look at it with a modern lens.

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He's being abused like sexually abused by some women, like his

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teacher's wife sexually abuses him.

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He's always been chased by women and it's really

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interesting.

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He kind of has this thing where if you take the movie, I know

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it's only a comedy and I know it's just a junkie comedy, but

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if you kind of put a kind of a serious edge on the movie it's

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only when he starts talking or having a relationship with I've

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forgotten the character's name, but the one he ends up with near

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the end, tina, that's it when she is more about personality

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and more about real life connection rather than just a

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sexual connection.

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He obviously kind of can't help himself with all the other

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stuff coming on around him.

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Matt Fulton: No, it is.

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He reeks of.

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Well, his libido is just oozes and Alvin's just completely.

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He is aware but unaware, like it doesn't affect him, he just

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thinks that's part of everyday life.

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And then when he's being approached by the sexual desires

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really, and they do exploit him in a way or sexploit him.

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Pete Iacono: He's definitely exploited, and I'm probably not

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in a position to talk about this .

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It's a very fine line.

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I'm not sure, though, that whether this movie is also a

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reflection of the women's liberation movement of the time

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as well, where women are more empowered, seem more empowered.

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So in this movie they seem quite empowered and they're kind

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of almost the what's the word?

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I don't want to say stalkers, that's the wrong word, but

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they're kind of like they're the ones that are actually making

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the moves on him, rather than the other way around.

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Matt Fulton: It's interesting to kind of look at it, If the

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tables were turned and it's like this is what women have to deal

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with on a day to day basis.

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Pete Iacono: Yes, probably it's a bit like that.

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Maybe it's a bit of a take on that as well.

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I'm getting ready for all the hate mail I'm going to get from

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women that listen to this time.

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Let me just start by saying I'm not qualified to talk about a

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lot of this stuff, so it's just off the top of my head, and if

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you don't agree, let me know.

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I'm happy to have the conversation.

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There's something about this movie somewhere.

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I think it actually has a little bit more depth than it

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kind of appears to have, and I think when you look at it that

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way, it's quite an interesting film.

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Matt Fulton: As the movie goes on, there are moments where it

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starts feeling a bit where they're going with this and not

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trying to ruin or spoil anything .

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It gets really dramatic dark.

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Yeah, like it gets really heavy towards the main part, like, oh

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yeah, fair enough, it goes from that big laughing, laughing ha,

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ha, and next thing you know, oh , we shouldn't be laughing at

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that.

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Pete Iacono: Yeah, but anyway it's a funny movie.

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I mean I like the way early on in the movie he's trying all

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these different jobs, trying to get a job.

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Matt Fulton: It seems to continue on in the second movie

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a bit as well and the one where he's the waterbed salesman is

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pretty hilarious, yeah, and I just like the opening credits

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where you got the bed mattress bouncing up and down and you

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know, the first thing that I thought of was there is zero

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lumbar support.

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I'm going wow, where's the mirror coil in that?

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Pete Iacono: Yeah, it's really.

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It's quite funny watching him all slosh around in the scene

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where he's got the cowboy boots or whatever it is and he pierces

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and he spurs and he pierces the waterbed.

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I said to me, we're watching.

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I was like hang on, there's more water there than would have

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been contained in that waterbed as well.

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Matt Fulton: I think that might have been, for a bit of a fact,

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a comedic effect.

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Pete Iacono: I think so.

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Yeah, the car chases are good.

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It's got some interesting car chases.

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Like you said, it's very Benny Hill.

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I was like, is it the maze If they played Yackity Sax in this?

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It would be, and just sped it up a little bit.

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Matt Fulton: Yeah, that's all it needs, and they've already

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applied the wacky sound effects with some parts as well, but

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it's just pure sex slapstick.

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Pete Iacono: The other thing that was interesting to me is

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like I was looking at how the movie progressed right and I had

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this thought we get to the scene where so Alvin Purple gets

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basically used by his psychologist to make blue movies

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and then they get caught out by this other psychologist he was

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originally seeing who eventually wanted to sleep with him she

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looked like she was fairly straight laced and he kind of

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refuses her advances and then she decides to basically

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blackmail him because she knows, she knows what's going on, and

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they end up in this court scene.

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And the court scene is quite funny and we go through this

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whole piece and when he comes out of court, when he's on the

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shoulders of these people because they've won the court

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case, et cetera, et cetera, I was like, oh okay, the movie's

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going to end and then we've got another 20 minutes to go and I

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thought it was.

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It felt really strange having, like the I guess I'd call it the

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husband chase tagged onto the end where all the husbands get

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together and chase him.

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I was like I think this would have been better in the film

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itself and the end of the film would have been him being

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chaired out of court winning.

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Matt Fulton: I mean that would have been a logical and the

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escapades they get up to.

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Afterwards it's like that they've gone.

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Oh, we didn't spend all our budget, how do we?

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How do we get rid of it, or how do we burn the cash off?

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Pete Iacono: And then next thing you know is they do what they

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do, that whole piece with the chase and him being chased

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through Melbourne streets half naked or naked, and then the sky

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.

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All that was after the skydiving, the skydiving bit and

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all this sort of stuff and the skydiving bit when he was coming

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down on the parachute.

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I swear there was somebody that the sound effect was somebody

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in a microphone going yeah, well , I blew that budget nuts scene,

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didn't they?

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So they have that whole scene and they could have quite easily

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have moved that whole piece somewhere else in the movie and

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then ended with the with the court scene.

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I don't know why they did that.

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Unfortunately, Tim Bursell is not here anymore.

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Matt Fulton: I'd love to know Another thing.

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It could be when they were putting it all together and then

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they realized there was still a certain like short from

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completed film, because it might have come in at the the just an

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hour long.

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Pete Iacono: Yeah, maybe, but still, even when you film that

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part, doesn't someone like you go out and film all that?

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Doesn't someone look at it and go?

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It's not really a logical ending.

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I can't remember what was the ending.

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Again, how did it end?

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He got so he gets chased, he has the, he lands in the Yarra

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River, which must have been lovely for his health.

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And then, oh my God, I kind of remember what happens at the end

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.

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Oh, he ends up, he does.

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He go off with Tina.

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Matt Fulton: He ends up finding Tina, who ends up had a sister.

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Pete Iacono: Oh, my God, yes.

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Matt Fulton: He ends up getting a job there.

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Pete Iacono: And we're implying that the, the nuns or whoever

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they are, are going to feast on him as well.

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Matt Fulton: Right.

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Well, I've got the impression that, because he ended up, he

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ended up getting what he wanted to have at the start and that

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was a job, and he ends up being a groundskeeper or the the lands

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of the nunnery and the convent.

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And so it's all about celibacy.

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So, it's because Tina wasn't attracted to Alvin in that way.

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Pete Iacono: Yeah.

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Matt Fulton: Because she resisted Alvin's sexual I guess

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aura.

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So that's why he's going.

00:20:59
No, I think that this place is good for me, like the job,

00:21:02
because he can build everything, but then again I never thought

00:21:05
about the other way.

00:21:06
Pete Iacono: Well, my mind's in the gutter straight away, and

00:21:10
yeah.

00:21:11
Matt Fulton: So here I am thinking, oh, he's found some

00:21:12
peace.

00:21:13
Pete Iacono: Yeah, well, he maybe has maybe that.

00:21:15
I'm sure that was probably the idea that you know.

00:21:18
I looked at it and I was like, oh, is this really the right

00:21:20
place for him to be?

00:21:21
Both are plausible.

00:21:23
Yeah, both are plausible.

00:21:24
Yeah, in a way, it's kind of it's not a bad ending.

00:21:27
To be truthful, I just thought the coming out of court thing

00:21:30
was maybe I was to.

00:21:31
Maybe the coming out of court thing on the shoulders of people

00:21:34
is to cliche to end on, because that's happened in thousands of

00:21:37
movies, right.

00:21:38
Matt Fulton: Yeah, exactly, it'll be that victory thing.

00:21:40
Oh yeah, fair enough, because it wasn't quite a dramatic

00:21:43
moment in the court, and especially when they're playing

00:21:47
the clips back in the game, wow, like I actually felt very

00:21:50
awkward.

00:21:50
Sorry, the clips as in the evidence and gone.

00:21:54
Yeah, this is pretty rough.

00:21:55
He had the judge played by Norfaria.

00:21:59
Yeah, he was good as a free between the lines, sleazy judge

00:22:03
he was.

00:22:06
Pete Iacono: And yeah, I think it was those scenes.

00:22:08
I actually think when I was showing the stag me I call them

00:22:12
stag musics I'm sure they were talking about they would be

00:22:15
renting them out for $100 or $200 a time.

00:22:18
You could see them being played at the stag parties and if you

00:22:22
don't know what a stag party is, it's kind of just like a men's

00:22:24
party somewhere with lots of booze and you know those sort of

00:22:28
movies or it like a bucks night , that sort of thing.

00:22:32
You know, when I was watching that I was kind of like I

00:22:37
actually did feel really sorry for for the Alvin Pergola

00:22:40
character.

00:22:40
I was like, yeah, he's really been exploited and used in a way

00:22:46
that he wasn't expecting to.

00:22:48
Matt Fulton: Well, that's why he went when the evidence came out

00:22:50
and he's going oh what They'll feel like he was completely

00:22:53
unaware and he was concerned over the feelings that Tina was

00:22:57
having, and also the doctor, the psychiatrist, the I can't

00:23:05
remember a name either.

00:23:05
My apologies, but yeah.

00:23:07
So it was like trying to balance it out and just previous

00:23:12
innocence, like he did this stuff but he was under the

00:23:17
ruling of the perverted doctor.

00:23:20
Pete Iacono: The other thing that's interesting about this

00:23:21
film is when they cast the movie there was a lot of pressure to

00:23:26
cast somebody like I think they talked about Jack Thompson quite

00:23:29
a bit for the lead in this film , and Tim Burstle apparently

00:23:34
pushed back quite hard on the whole thing.

00:23:36
He was like, well, if we have somebody like Jack Thompson or a

00:23:40
Jack Thompson kind of guy in this movie, men are going to

00:23:43
hate him because he's just like you know, over the top, you know

00:23:47
masculine, et cetera.

00:23:48
So that's why he was always pushing to get a really average

00:23:52
looking guy and Graham Blundell was that guy, I guess.

00:23:56
Matt Fulton: Yeah, well, because Jack Thompson was of the time,

00:24:02
the Gary sweet.

00:24:03
Pete Iacono: He was.

00:24:03
He was in Peterson, wasn't he around that same time?

00:24:06
Matt Fulton: Yeah, and so Peterson came out a year later.

00:24:09
So maybe when Alan Purple was being made he was prepping Jack

00:24:15
Thompson to be Peterson, because it's by the same director.

00:24:19
Pete Iacono: Jack Thompson was also a Cleo pin-up, I think.

00:24:22
Matt Fulton: Yes, I believe so Was any one of the first ones.

00:24:25
Pete Iacono: I think so.

00:24:25
One of the first ones.

00:24:26
Yeah, like a yeah, a naked pin-up for Cleo magazine or

00:24:31
something.

00:24:31
Yeah, the music was good.

00:24:33
I mean I love the Alvin Purple theme, my little bit about Brian

00:24:36
Cadd.

00:24:36
I always like talking about music where I can on these

00:24:39
podcasts, maybe because I just like music and yeah, you got a

00:24:42
rich history of music.

00:24:43
I do, and that's always good.

00:24:45
Brian Cadd was basically a pretty significant figure in the

00:24:50
Australian music industry for well over 50 years now.

00:24:53
He's a singer-songwriter, producer, plays keyboard, record

00:24:58
label founder.

00:24:59
So he founded Bootleg Records, I think they were called.

00:25:03
He was involved in bands like the Group and Axiom and the

00:25:06
Bootleg Family Band and then he went solo in 72, all that sort

00:25:11
of stuff.

00:25:11
He even did a stint with the Flying Burrito Brothers in the

00:25:15
US.

00:25:15
So he's quite well known Probably best known in Australia

00:25:19
for songs like Ginger man, let it Go, show Me the Way, and then

00:25:25
of course Alvin Purple.

00:25:27
And then I guess a lot of older Australians like myself remember

00:25:31
his song for the TV series Class of 74, which was a big

00:25:34
deal in the 70s.

00:25:35
And then I also noticed when I was having a look at his profile

00:25:40
that he actually only just like as in like two or three weeks

00:25:43
ago released a new single called you Know what to Say and had a

00:25:49
listen to it.

00:25:49
It's pretty good as well.

00:25:50
So he's kind of like a rocky, bluesy kind of guy.

00:25:53
Now I think he goes more towards country sort of stuff.

00:25:58
I saw him, oh, last time.

00:26:00
I saw him doing it live.

00:26:01
I'm sure it was back in about 2013, 2012.

00:26:06
I was with my late wife.

00:26:07
We were at a country music festival because she was loved

00:26:09
country music up in the Hunter and I'm pretty sure he was

00:26:14
playing like a duo thing with Russell Morris at the time and

00:26:18
it was quite.

00:26:19
They were on very early in the day, it was quite good, so he's

00:26:22
kind of like been around for a long time.

00:26:25
I listened to him a bit yesterday, pretty good.

00:26:27
Do you know much about him, or have you been exposed to him

00:26:29
very much?

00:26:30
I know you're a bit younger.

00:26:32
Matt Fulton: Well, I did work at .

00:26:34
One of my previous jobs was working at a classic KS radio

00:26:37
station.

00:26:38
Pete Iacono: Oh, you would have known for sure.

00:26:41
Matt Fulton: His appearances on Rock Quiz and Spicks and Specs

00:26:46
and also still tours a lot.

00:26:49
So yeah, it is that whole generation of my generation, I

00:26:56
should say, that are kind of tapping into the previous

00:27:00
generations and Brian Caddy is part of that music generation.

00:27:05
Yeah, no, he's doing the round still, he still is, and that's

00:27:10
great.

00:27:10
Pete Iacono: I love it.

00:27:10
Like he must be.

00:27:11
Well, he was born in 1946.

00:27:14
What does that make him?

00:27:15
Oh, my maths is terrible.

00:27:18
Matt Fulton: Quite young.

00:27:19
Pete Iacono: Quite young.

00:27:20
Well, he's 20, almost 20 years 70, 78.

00:27:25
Matt Fulton: Yeah, He'll be 78.

00:27:28
Pete Iacono: But you know nothing like a good old music at

00:27:30
still doing it, which is great.

00:27:32
Plenty of us still out there doing stuff, so it's great.

00:27:36
Of course he's as young, I reckon keeps you young playing

00:27:40
music as you get older.

00:27:42
Matt Fulton: Especially when you switch from beer to soda water.

00:27:44
Definitely that's that stage where you start.

00:27:50
Better, start looking after myself a little bit.

00:27:52
Pete Iacono: And you go from marijuana to multivitamins.

00:27:57
Matt Fulton: Yeah.

00:27:58
Pete Iacono: Yeah, definitely changes anyway.

00:28:00
So, yeah, so this movie, I don't know.

00:28:02
In closing, I just think this movie is a bit of fun.

00:28:05
It's certainly not earth shattering, but it is kind of

00:28:11
like if you go a dig a bit deeper into it, it actually has,

00:28:15
says some interesting things and on the surface it's just sex

00:28:19
exploitation comedy, which is probably the best way to take it

00:28:22
.

00:28:22
There's a bit of meat there.

00:28:23
Sounds like a double on tonda, If you want.

00:28:28
If you want to have a look, as there's a bit there.

00:28:31
So was it good for you?

00:28:33
Matt Fulton: Yeah, like I was, leave the brain at the door, I

00:28:37
cracked it.

00:28:38
How did?

00:28:38
I had a beer while watching this and, yeah, I, since we last

00:28:45
spoke, I've now since registered with letterboxed and

00:28:50
I gave it three stars.

00:28:52
Pete Iacono: Okay, I think I gave it.

00:28:53
Yeah, I think I gave it about the same.

00:28:54
Matt Fulton: Yeah, and I called it a pure shameless Osploitation

00:28:58
.

00:28:58
Nog fest.

00:28:59
Pete Iacono: There you go.

00:29:00
That's beautifully.

00:29:00
Yeah it's all about the booze baby you did see.

00:29:06
There's like one scene in the movie, I think, where you get to

00:29:10
see his old fella for like a split second, I think.

00:29:15
I don't remember seeing it a lot.

00:29:18
Matt Fulton: It was there, I think he was wrestling with

00:29:21
Chris McQuade in the waterbed, the.

00:29:24
I don't know how to wait, but Chris, she was the artist, the

00:29:28
painting artist, but also the dominatrix, I think, or maybe it

00:29:31
was her.

00:29:32
Pete Iacono: Yeah, it was one of them and I think that's the

00:29:34
only time that I remember seeing it in the movie in any in any

00:29:38
sort of thing.

00:29:39
There's a few, there's a bit of full frontal stuff from the,

00:29:42
from the ladies in the film, but it's nothing gratuitous really

00:29:46
in this movie, it's just a bit of nudity.

00:29:50
Matt Fulton: But then again it's like the first minute or so

00:29:52
when they had Abigail, who at the time was the draw card to a

00:30:00
lot of TV and film in Australia, Pretty much the Pamela Anderson

00:30:04
of the 70s.

00:30:05
Pete Iacono: Oh, she was yeah.

00:30:07
Matt Fulton: Yeah, so, and then when you've got her wearing a

00:30:12
revealing top on the tram in public, yeah, you knew that

00:30:16
you're in for a or a.

00:30:18
Males of a certain age were in for a bit of a I wouldn't say

00:30:23
treat, but as in, yeah, this is what you're going to be in.

00:30:27
Pete Iacono: This is what you're going to be in for, like she

00:30:29
was a massive draw card for these movies.

00:30:32
She was like she was in this movie, she was in the next movie

00:30:35
.

00:30:35
She shows a bit more in the next movie than she showed in

00:30:39
this movie.

00:30:39
She's also massive starring number 96, right, was this about

00:30:43
the same time as?

00:30:44
Oh, here we go.

00:30:45
He's reaching for his.

00:30:47
Matt Fulton: I've got all three volumes of number 96.

00:30:50
Pete Iacono: Yeah, oh, wow.

00:30:51
Matt Fulton: Yeah, which I know.

00:30:52
These are rare.

00:30:53
See, I'm too young for the stuff that I'm interested in, so

00:30:59
I've missed the generation.

00:31:01
Pete Iacono: He missed all that.

00:31:01
I remember seeing that on TV.

00:31:03
I will I think.

00:31:04
What year was number 96?

00:31:06
Was that 70s?

00:31:07
Matt Fulton: 1974.

00:31:08
Pete Iacono: There you go.

00:31:09
Matt Fulton: Sorry, no, no, I do apologize.

00:31:10
1972.

00:31:12
Pete Iacono: Okay.

00:31:12
So yeah, I'm 10,.

00:31:13
I'm 10 years old, so I'm probably not allowed to watch it

00:31:17
1972.

00:31:19
Matt Fulton: And yeah, it's a yeah, abigail's front and center

00:31:24
up in.

00:31:25
Pete Iacono: That was pretty groundbreaking series actually,

00:31:27
wasn't it?

00:31:28
Matt Fulton: It was yeah.

00:31:30
Pete Iacono: It was everything from homosexuality.

00:31:33
Matt Fulton: And then there was um in regards to sexual abuse

00:31:37
and, yeah, just was very, very risky yeah it was, wasn't it.

00:31:40
Yeah, yeah, like it broke a lot of taboos.

00:31:43
Pete Iacono: It did.

00:31:43
Yeah, it was pretty big.

00:31:44
I just remember the most.

00:31:48
The thing I most remember is, uh, the explosion in the is it

00:31:49
the corner store?

00:31:51
Matt Fulton: Well, the, the explosion in the corner store,

00:31:53
yeah, downstairs, where there was the, the bomb, yeah, which

00:31:57
is in volume three.

00:31:59
Pete Iacono: All right.

00:31:59
So that was Alvin purple.

00:32:02
Now we're going to dive into Alvin Marys, again from 1974,

00:32:08
which is of course the 1974 sequel that dives back into the

00:32:12
misadventures of Alvin purple, played again by Graham Blundell.

00:32:15
This time he finds himself entangled in what even more

00:32:19
absurd situations as he accidentally becomes involved

00:32:22
with gangsters.

00:32:23
This is really over the top, um , uh, while still being

00:32:26
irresistibly attractive to women everywhere.

00:32:29
So he encounters his double in this film played by himself, and

00:32:34
it leads to some serious mistaken identities and you know

00:32:38
chaos, right?

00:32:39
Um, we have Alan Finney as Spike, abigail as the seductive

00:32:44
May, noel Ferrier, again as fingers, um, the gangster.

00:32:49
So the movie kind of capitalizes on the sex comedy

00:32:53
formula, but it also has, like the dual role gimmick and I

00:32:59
think makes it a little bit more of a standard comedy.

00:33:03
Matt Fulton: You know what it kind of reminded me of, like it

00:33:06
was lamp hooting, say the James Bond type baddies, yeah With

00:33:10
fingers, or think of was goldfinger.

00:33:13
Pete Iacono: And what was the Nelfaria guy called?

00:33:15
Oh, the hatchet, or something like that, yeah, yeah.

00:33:20
Matt Fulton: Yeah, so you had those returning actors from the

00:33:24
first film playing completely different characters.

00:33:26
Pete Iacono: I was going to say this is my first point what the

00:33:29
heck Anulferia and Penny Hackforth Jones doing in this

00:33:34
movie, playing completely different roles in the first

00:33:36
film.

00:33:37
I'm watching this scene where Penny Hackforth Jones is the

00:33:42
like in the cricket team.

00:33:43
She's in the women's cricket team.

00:33:44
She's like the dead mother I guess one of a bit of a term and

00:33:48
he's sitting right next to him Like don't you realize?

00:33:51
You're sitting next to your psychiatrist from the first

00:33:53
movie.

00:33:53
You tried to ruin your life.

00:33:56
What's going?

00:33:58
Matt Fulton: on.

00:33:58
Pete Iacono: I'm like, why did we end up with these people back

00:34:01
in the movie?

00:34:01
And then Anulferia he was the judge in the first movie and now

00:34:05
he's hatchet in this movie.

00:34:07
Matt Fulton: Yeah, well, it's bizarre.

00:34:09
And the fact that Abigail is in it by playing a different role,

00:34:13
from tram passenger to the assistant, or the wife or the

00:34:19
shop assistant to at the petrol station that Maury Fields runs.

00:34:25
The mechanic is the mechanic.

00:34:27
So yeah, so bizarre.

00:34:30
Pete Iacono: I didn't quite get it.

00:34:31
I was not confused, but it's like I just don't understand how

00:34:37
they, what they're reasoning.

00:34:39
There's no on the DVD.

00:34:41
I don't think there was any.

00:34:42
There was a couple of interviews, I think, but there

00:34:45
was no.

00:34:45
Like there's no commentary on these every bear.

00:34:48
But I just I'm not sure why, why they ended up in here.

00:34:52
I'm just thinking, was there any more that are in here in

00:34:55
this, in this film, that were in the first film?

00:34:57
There's probably a couple.

00:34:58
Matt Fulton: Well, there was actually.

00:35:02
No, I don't think there was, but I just that might have been

00:35:05
people in the background or anything like that.

00:35:07
In fact, I was going to mention too from first movie of Alvin

00:35:13
Purple.

00:35:13
I did notice and I got it confirmed by committee in Tony

00:35:16
Martin.

00:35:16
Sorry to go back to this, but Shane Bourne was in it.

00:35:22
Pete Iacono: He was yeah.

00:35:24
Matt Fulton: Yeah, when the waterbed sales inside the

00:35:26
shopping centre.

00:35:27
Yeah, so is there having a smoke and smoking.

00:35:32
And I was looking for him in Alvin rides again, just in case,

00:35:35
since people were reoccurring in the thing.

00:35:38
Pete Iacono: if he was in it, yeah, but no he wasn't, so OK

00:35:41
yeah.

00:35:42
It's interesting film because we had, like we had a cameo from

00:35:45
pre long weekend, breone Behetz playing a taxi passenger early

00:35:50
in the movie and she was just there to do the usual Alvin

00:35:52
Purple stuff.

00:35:53
Matt Fulton: Yeah, the Nymphomaniac.

00:35:55
Pete Iacono: Yeah, exactly yeah.

00:35:56
And then we had in her second film Chantelle Cantori, who was

00:36:02
in the last movie we did on his snapshot, and then she went on

00:36:05
to do thirst and lots of other things as well, and she's name

00:36:11
in this movie is crazy it's boobs, litchou, shea or

00:36:15
something like that I know right .

00:36:18
Matt Fulton: It's such so Austin Powers.

00:36:20
Before it was Austin Powers.

00:36:22
Pete Iacono: Well, do you know what?

00:36:23
That's the vibe I got from her.

00:36:25
Matt Fulton: Yeah.

00:36:25
I really enjoyed watching Graham Blundell play two

00:36:28
characters, which was kind of fun that was his doing, because

00:36:32
he, I believe that they didn't want to make a sequel, so this

00:36:37
was kind of forced them by the studios and I believe that

00:36:42
Graham had actually said that if you're going to do it, you need

00:36:47
to do this and give me some more range just to show that I

00:36:50
can do it.

00:36:50
And that's why he ended up doing those two roles.

00:36:54
Pete Iacono: Some parts of it.

00:36:55
There's a bit of a Weekend of Bernie's vibe.

00:36:57
Yes.

00:37:01
Matt Fulton: I do have that in my notes too.

00:37:01
The magician's scene won't go.

00:37:03
Yeah, that is very Weekend of Bernie's, and in the hotel room,

00:37:07
yeah.

00:37:08
Pete Iacono: So it's basically the story is he kind of meets up

00:37:12
.

00:37:12
For some reason he and his friend forgotten his name, spike

00:37:16
decide to head north.

00:37:19
I thought they're heading to Queensland, but then I just

00:37:21
assume everyone's in New South Wales, within Victoria.

00:37:23
So they're heading to New South Wales and they decide to go on

00:37:28
the road.

00:37:28
They take off in this really crappy little car which breaks

00:37:32
down, and then that's where we find see Abigail for the first

00:37:35
time and he has dalliance with her while his car is being fixed

00:37:41
at the back, and they end up at this casino.

00:37:44
I don't know where this casino is.

00:37:46
It's just like some casino in the middle of nowhere.

00:37:50
Matt Fulton: Oh, my monobene in Canberra casino, maybe all the

00:37:52
game halfway yeah.

00:37:54
Pete Iacono: And they end up with this character from the US

00:37:58
who's scoping out.

00:38:00
He's named Balsmagi Another Alvin Purple kind of name for it

00:38:06
.

00:38:06
Matt Fulton: Yeah, with the exact same going in and out of

00:38:10
Australia and America, and the only thing difference was like

00:38:14
wearing the suit suit and there's scarring on his face and

00:38:19
something to kind of represent how gangster he was, how

00:38:22
gangster, he is.

00:38:23
Yeah, with his flu is easier.

00:38:25
Pete Iacono: And Gus McCurrier is in this as well.

00:38:27
He was like he's off-sider, balsmagi is off-sider.

00:38:31
It's quite funny.

00:38:32
Yeah, there's a little bit of the usual sort of slapstick

00:38:35
stuff in here.

00:38:35
There's the whole scene where the casino detective, or

00:38:39
whatever they call him, the casino police officer, the house

00:38:42
detective played by Frank Wilson.

00:38:46
Matt Fulton: Yeah, he is just like he could read between the

00:38:52
lines, and that's when it goes all weak in that Bernie style.

00:38:58
Pete Iacono: It's so gross with.

00:39:01
He wants to see them together and they've got Balsmagi's body

00:39:05
in the bath with one of his girls and she actually kisses

00:39:09
him.

00:39:10
I mean, obviously he's alive in the real thing, but we're

00:39:13
supposed to know that he's dead and it's like oh, yeah, goodness

00:39:16
, yeah, that's all quite.

00:39:18
Matt Fulton: And he's like, oh hello.

00:39:20
Pete Iacono: Yeah, exactly.

00:39:21
Matt Fulton: Yeah.

00:39:21
Pete Iacono: So yeah, it's quite funny.

00:39:23
There's that that's very much a weekend at Bernie's thing, and

00:39:26
then you mentioned the magician as well.

00:39:29
That's a funny scene actually.

00:39:30
Matt Fulton: Yeah, can I mention that towards the opening

00:39:33
credits of the film?

00:39:35
I've noticed that when they had when it came up with Frank

00:39:39
Thuring who plays Fingers, but it says courtesy of the

00:39:45
Melbourne Theatre Company, I noticed that as well.

00:39:48
Yeah, wow, such prestige.

00:39:51
Pete Iacono: Yeah, and then, of course and another point I need

00:39:55
to make, where I guess things are a bit different in those

00:39:58
days is a.

00:39:59
Ross Bover plays this dwarf in the movie.

00:40:03
Matt Fulton: Oh, yeah, he's not.

00:40:05
He's not playing and we're only going by what it's been labeled

00:40:08
.

00:40:08
In the movie of its time His character was in the.

00:40:13
In the looked up in the credits , he was called the dwarf.

00:40:17
Pete Iacono: Yeah, he was.

00:40:18
Matt Fulton: Sorry, we're not labelling in that.

00:40:22
Pete Iacono: That is what he was called.

00:40:23
Matt Fulton: Yeah, that's what he was called.

00:40:25
Pete Iacono: Seeing this as a movie of its time.

00:40:27
There are short people jokes, mostly from Frank Thuring, and

00:40:33
once again, these days you wouldn't do it right.

00:40:35
But but the 70s, it was just a thing.

00:40:39
I think he's pretty funny, though Am I wrong to say that?

00:40:42
I think he's really funny the way, especially when.

00:40:46
Matt Fulton: I manipulate his voice.

00:40:47
Yeah Well, that's manipulated, like.

00:40:49
I'm pretty sure it's dubbed, or they got his voice and then

00:40:53
they sped it up.

00:40:54
Pete Iacono: He's got some funny scenes, like when he's you know

00:40:57
, when they double crosses Frank Thuring in the in the safe and

00:41:00
he's in the safe at the end.

00:41:02
Matt Fulton: And that was totally random.

00:41:03
I was oh, you got me.

00:41:10
Pete Iacono: Then we get the little.

00:41:11
You get the tag at the end where he's flying the plane that

00:41:13
they're flying off in as well.

00:41:15
Matt Fulton: Oh yeah, it's so weird.

00:41:18
Pete Iacono: It is a weird movie .

00:41:19
Matt Fulton: When Alvin decided to escape up north there was the

00:41:24
moment where it caused Alvin.

00:41:25
The whole premise with Alvin rides again is that he's looking

00:41:28
for a new job, so apparently the one at the groundskeeper.

00:41:31
He kind of went through that.

00:41:32
But when he gets the window washer, roll at the two story

00:41:39
home and falls off after Lady is just studying their starkers

00:41:43
but it's the new job as the office cleaner and the office

00:41:46
lady seduces him, I just could not stop looking at the office

00:41:49
Boston next day when he walks in the mutton chops on his face.

00:41:53
Oh my God.

00:41:54
Pete Iacono: Yes, and the comb over yes.

00:41:57
Yeah, I was like.

00:41:59
Matt Fulton: I just could not.

00:42:00
I felt like I was nearly yelled at TV game Come your face or

00:42:05
shave it.

00:42:05
It was just.

00:42:06
I've never seen so much mutton chop on his face.

00:42:10
Pete Iacono: I know he walks in.

00:42:10
I said to me he said look at the chops on this guy.

00:42:13
And then, and then I'm like, oh my God, he's got a really bad

00:42:16
comb over as well and I'm like I can't remember the last time.

00:42:22
It must be so out of fashion these days, thankfully, like

00:42:25
combovers must be totally out of fashion these days.

00:42:27
It's like Florida.

00:42:29
Matt Fulton: to kind of date it.

00:42:30
It's like you know a whole thing at the time of this

00:42:32
recording when Godfrey's had gone into voluntary, the

00:42:36
administration thing.

00:42:37
And then you got the Mr Hardy who was the sales rep for

00:42:42
Godfrey's with the comb over, looked him up and he's still got

00:42:46
his 80 and he's still got the comb over, oh God.

00:42:48
Only because we're talking about combovers.

00:42:51
Pete Iacono: Yeah, no, that's all right.

00:42:52
Well, it's obviously from a different generation, right?

00:42:54
And I'm getting a bit bald at the back and I'm like I'm just

00:42:58
going to let it go.

00:42:59
Yeah.

00:43:01
Matt Fulton: I'm in my early 40s and I've just I've lost it all.

00:43:04
Pete Iacono: So yeah, I'm like this.

00:43:07
I think eventually I'll end up shaving it all off, but you know

00:43:11
, it's all grown back since Makiima, which is kind of nice,

00:43:13
but not not all of it, but yeah it's.

00:43:15
It was an interesting film, like well, one of the things was

00:43:18
only rated M at the movies as well.

00:43:21
Well they, which was quite controversial.

00:43:23
Matt Fulton: Well, I think it was because they wanted to

00:43:25
appeal to a younger audience.

00:43:26
So, while Alvin Purple was like , it made its motto for an R

00:43:34
rated film, which is pretty impressive, but I think when

00:43:37
they tried to make the sequel to the studios, again we want to

00:43:41
be like.

00:43:41
Alvin Purple obviously would have been following in.

00:43:44
A whole bunch of younger kids were wanting to watch it, but

00:43:48
they couldn't.

00:43:49
So they got all right, there's an audience there, let's tap

00:43:51
into that, and that's why they went that way.

00:43:54
But it just felt like the movie was being made up as it went.

00:43:58
Pete Iacono: Yeah, it was.

00:43:58
So it was had a $300, I think $300 budget.

00:44:04
It only made about $1.8 million at the box office.

00:44:09
So, it, regards the other one, didn't even do half of what the

00:44:13
other one did and you know, it just didn't perform as well.

00:44:17
I think there's a quote here I'm reading from John Lamond,

00:44:20
who actually worked on the film's release, saying he

00:44:24
thought the filmmakers made a mistake making it less sexy

00:44:27
because they didn't want to lose any potential audience.

00:44:29
So the second one wasn't rated R and it flopped, fell on its

00:44:33
ass after the first month.

00:44:34
Matt Fulton: He said Well, if they do want to lose any of the

00:44:36
potential audience, they should have just kept it as an R rating

00:44:38
.

00:44:38
Pete Iacono: Yeah, exactly Because I think half the

00:44:40
attraction of an R rating is the fact that it's R right.

00:44:44
And you know you've got the usual problem with kids trying

00:44:48
to get in, trying to sneak in and stuff like that, which is a

00:44:51
whole part of the fun.

00:44:52
We all did it and you know it's .

00:44:56
Yeah, it probably would have done just as well.

00:44:58
Matt Fulton: That's the thrill of the chase of sneaking to a

00:45:03
movie which you don't have, that these days anymore.

00:45:06
Pete Iacono: I was reading yesterday, when they first

00:45:08
proposed the R rating in Australia in 71 or 70 or

00:45:13
whatever it was, that there was a heap of pushback from the

00:45:17
cinemas themselves because they didn't want to be the ones that

00:45:20
would have to enforce it.

00:45:23
Yeah, in regards to having to go through all the trouble of

00:45:25
making sure that they were checking ages and all this sort

00:45:28
of stuff.

00:45:29
Matt Fulton: Because they'd lose revenue.

00:45:30
Pete Iacono: Oh, that's exactly right.

00:45:31
Yeah, hey, what did you think of the cricket scene?

00:45:35
So?

00:45:36
Matt Fulton: random.

00:45:36
Yeah, this is where it feels like they're just making it up.

00:45:40
Yeah, bringing the group to write in the women into the

00:45:45
movie to have a sexual escapade.

00:45:48
But the fact that the team was losing.

00:45:52
And then so Alvin and Spike dressed up in drag to do their

00:45:57
thing, to play as the women and start winning the game.

00:46:02
And also the Very dated sludges from all the hecklers yeah,

00:46:10
terry Gill playing one of them, especially when the players are

00:46:13
slapping the women on the butt.

00:46:15
Pete Iacono: So yeah, it was like very uncomfortable.

00:46:19
Yeah, I thought that as well.

00:46:20
It was a bit uncomfortable and I thought for a minute.

00:46:23
I thought, oh, all the girls are going to come out and

00:46:25
they're going to surprise them by being good at cricket, right,

00:46:28
they obviously weren't, but it was a little bit mean spirited

00:46:32
actually and I'm like, why would a women's cricket team play a

00:46:36
men's cricket team?

00:46:37
And for starters, because my thinking was okay, one of these

00:46:41
women is going to hit the ball out, you know, towards that

00:46:46
group of men on the sideline, heckling, and hit one of them in

00:46:49
the nuts, or something like that.

00:46:50
That sort of thing will happen, right.

00:46:52
And the fact that that Alvin and his mate is it Spike Is his

00:46:57
name, spike Spike had to kind of dress up in drag to kind of

00:47:01
save them because they put a bet on them.

00:47:03
It was a bit rough, it was a bit demeaning, but that was the

00:47:07
70s.

00:47:08
Matt Fulton: Yeah, and I love the fact that the oh sorry, I

00:47:12
shouldn't say that I don't love the fact that I found it amusing

00:47:15
that the male cricket team were from Buffington RSL.

00:47:20
Pete Iacono: Yeah, we noticed that as well.

00:47:22
It's like oh, okay.

00:47:24
Matt Fulton: Oh, actually did you notice, though, when they,

00:47:27
when Spike and Alvin were in the hotel and Alvin was, you know,

00:47:33
getting it on with one player at a time, and then it's like

00:47:37
Spike's like send some my way, and all the different door

00:47:41
knocks that would just turn up where, especially with a cleaner

00:47:46
and ladies of all different ages and sizes, especially with

00:47:51
Esme Melville as well, the older lady, and then John Michael

00:47:56
Halzen as the bellboy.

00:47:57
So there's your cameo from John Michael Halzen.

00:48:01
It's outrageous.

00:48:05
Pete Iacono: Yeah, that was a bit rough too, like I was like

00:48:07
oh okay, so we're sending him through.

00:48:10
No fault of Alvin's, apparently , but just the way the film's

00:48:13
written.

00:48:13
They're sending him like the gay guy, the old lady and the

00:48:19
overweight woman.

00:48:20
Once again, doubt you'd see it today, but you know it's, it's

00:48:24
of its time, right.

00:48:25
The other thing that's really interesting in this movie is

00:48:29
right at the very end, is like a little bit of gore, right at

00:48:33
the very end with hatchet.

00:48:34
Matt Fulton: Oh yeah, that did.

00:48:35
Starts movie ends up being like a bit of a action thriller type

00:48:40
thing on a on Sydney Harbor.

00:48:42
Yeah, because it's so weird.

00:48:46
It's like that they gave up on the boobs all.

00:48:48
They ran out of money for the budget.

00:48:50
It's like we've seen everyone's boobs and so let's make boobs

00:48:54
of ourselves and just run a market.

00:48:57
It's like they got a creative license to hey, we can film in

00:49:02
circular key.

00:49:02
What the hell do we do?

00:49:05
Pete Iacono: Yeah, let's get on a ferry.

00:49:06
Matt Fulton: Wow, it was just so weird.

00:49:08
But then again I'm all speechless during that movie.

00:49:12
So I'm going.

00:49:13
Am I watching a really budgeted James Bond movie now?

00:49:17
Pete Iacono: Yeah, it was quite funny like that it's.

00:49:19
But like I said, I think it's less, even though there was

00:49:22
still the sex stuff in there.

00:49:24
It was less of a sex romper, more of a classic sort of comedy

00:49:29
kind of thing, you know, but they still, because it was an

00:49:34
Alvin purple movie like if you've made this with some other

00:49:36
character, they could have cut out all the sex stuff, added

00:49:39
some extra scenes.

00:49:39
It just would have been a comedy.

00:49:41
Matt Fulton: Yeah Well, when Alvin Spike and boobs, the

00:49:47
character not on, just saying boobs.

00:49:50
Let's just yes, when they escape.

00:49:53
And then Alvin and boobs are taken, romantic stroll then

00:49:56
suddenly ends up with balls as funeral Right.

00:50:01
And then next thing, you know the hearse with the machine gun

00:50:07
and then they give chase and going well, where is this going?

00:50:11
It just suddenly ends up being like a full on car chase.

00:50:15
Pete Iacono: It was so weird.

00:50:15
I was like what the fuck is going on, and the guy who was

00:50:20
chasing him in the car hardly understood the word he said when

00:50:24
.

00:50:24
Anyway, when he was talking to them, there's no subtitles on

00:50:28
the DVDs, so you couldn't really get into it that way.

00:50:30
He had this car that had like machine gun at the front and

00:50:34
then these two rocket launches and, like you said, it's almost

00:50:37
like a James Bond film.

00:50:39
Matt Fulton: Yeah, just shooting anything and everything with

00:50:42
one eye patch, and so his death perception is completely off.

00:50:46
No wonder why he was missing him.

00:50:48
Pete Iacono: That's right and killed a guy in a crane which

00:50:51
ends up killing him.

00:50:52
He kills.

00:50:54
I don't know if he kills him.

00:50:56
There was that rental truck that he blew up when he shot it

00:51:01
and it's like OK, this is interesting.

00:51:04
This isn't Alvin Pervill, but anyway.

00:51:06
Matt Fulton: So if you're after nakedness and sex scenes, pretty

00:51:11
much the last one that you see is just before the big shoot

00:51:15
them up.

00:51:16
Pete Iacono: Yeah, because he's in with Boobs Latouche I love

00:51:19
saying that name.

00:51:20
Matt Fulton: Yeah, the Boobs Latouche.

00:51:23
Pete Iacono: Boobs Latouche is a tush because the way it's

00:51:25
written it's T O U C H E, which I thought was too shady.

00:51:29
Matt Fulton: Yeah, it's written like that, but they pronounce it

00:51:31
as Boobs Latouche.

00:51:32
Pete Iacono: Boobs Latouche.

00:51:33
Yeah, and it is.

00:51:35
It's very Austin Powers.

00:51:36
Yeah, a lot of vagina.

00:51:40
Matt Fulton: Yeah, it's just yeah, it's just so weird.

00:51:47
And then when those action scenes are happening, I'm

00:51:49
thinking it's like Cassina Royale and the David Nevin

00:51:52
version and Peter Sellers and with that going on and then when

00:51:58
they end up on the ferry, in the end escaping to the airport

00:52:03
and flying the Sydney, which magically they just end up at

00:52:06
circular key, and the fact that Boobs ends up killing all the

00:52:13
baddies with you know, with whatever, and then they're all

00:52:19
going.

00:52:19
Oh well done, you have learned.

00:52:22
It's like why did?

00:52:24
Why did Demean you?

00:52:27
You have, I see, you have learned.

00:52:31
You know you're Judo well type.

00:52:33
Oh my God.

00:52:33
Pete Iacono: Yeah, it's so strange Like she.

00:52:35
She shoots the first guy and he says something like I wasn't

00:52:40
expecting that or something like that, or whatever it was.

00:52:42
Well done.

00:52:43
Well, she stabs the second guy and he says a few things the

00:52:49
same way, and then she puts a hatchet in Null Ferry's head,

00:52:55
which is like where I said the gore comes.

00:52:56
That's like that's pre-Friday the 13th even.

00:53:00
Matt Fulton: Yeah.

00:53:01
Pete Iacono: So you know it's groundbreaking right.

00:53:04
Matt Fulton: And it does like a Shakespeare-esque type of line

00:53:08
at the end.

00:53:08
I love the the special effects with it, where it's literally

00:53:13
red paint, because that blood is just way too thick and bright.

00:53:19
Pete Iacono: Yeah, it's.

00:53:20
Yeah it's very red, but yeah, so it's.

00:53:23
It's an interesting movie.

00:53:24
We get another.

00:53:25
We get another little bit from Brian Cadd.

00:53:28
In this movie he sings.

00:53:29
There's a like just before the scene with the magician.

00:53:32
There's a scene with his band I think it's a bootleg family

00:53:36
band at the time doing his gig and I was like geez, they

00:53:40
cleared that stage so quick because they finished playing it

00:53:43
and the magician's on stage right where the drummer was set

00:53:46
up.

00:53:46
Matt Fulton: But that's the you know, because you're you're

00:53:50
playing the odd band and it's like you click your fingers.

00:53:55
Pete Iacono: Just click your fingers, it's all gone.

00:53:56
That's it.

00:53:57
It's very quick and that stage is so small.

00:54:00
That poor drummer and he was, I think he's a real drummer.

00:54:05
He was kind of overplaying his sort of hand movements.

00:54:09
He was probably told by the director to make it look more

00:54:13
like he was doing something.

00:54:14
But it was quite funny.

00:54:16
But you know it was, it was a good movie.

00:54:19
It was funny and I don't know I was kind of thinking out of the

00:54:23
two movies did you have a preference for one over the

00:54:25
other?

00:54:26
Matt Fulton: Yeah, well, I would say that with Alvin Rise again

00:54:29
and I put this on my letterbox as well I gave it one and a half

00:54:33
Like I tried my absolute best.

00:54:36
I only pushed through it because we had to.

00:54:39
I had to review it for the podcast and I my comment for it

00:54:45
was Jesus, this sequel made no sense and I'm I'm really open to

00:54:52
accepting that.

00:54:53
It's like with Barry Mackenzie, all design type where it goes

00:54:58
into like a whole vampire type thing.

00:55:00
I'm always open for a completely different direction

00:55:04
or anything like this.

00:55:05
But I really struggled with Alvin Rise again.

00:55:08
Pete Iacono: I kind of didn't mind it.

00:55:09
I was.

00:55:10
When I first finished watching it I was like, did I actually

00:55:14
enjoy that?

00:55:14
And then I was like, when I was reflecting on, I was like I

00:55:19
enjoyed it, but I enjoyed it like I would enjoy, I don't know

00:55:23
, a piece of chocolate.

00:55:24
Matt Fulton: And then it's gone and you forget all about it.

00:55:26
Whereas.

00:55:29
Pete Iacono: Alvin Purple's probably a little bit more.

00:55:32
God can you even say Alvin Purple's thought provoking.

00:55:36
I guess it is in a way.

00:55:37
I know it sounds like I'm building these two up too much,

00:55:41
but the main reason and I'll tell you the truth, the other

00:55:43
reason we decided to do both of these was because I'm like I

00:55:47
can't fill up an hour talking about Alvin Purple.

00:55:51
Matt Fulton: I don't blame you.

00:55:53
Pete Iacono: All right.

00:55:54
So, matt, let me know where people can find you and let

00:55:58
listeners know where people can find you, what you're up to and

00:56:01
all your socials, if you want.

00:56:03
Matt Fulton: Sure, well, my stuff is my Geek Culture, the

00:56:08
Australian type pop culture website.

00:56:12
So if you look up MyGeekCulturecomau and also it's

00:56:18
available on YouTube.

00:56:20
So I've got some stuff which I'm filming and I've got another

00:56:24
podcast coming up based on that , which is not boring.

00:56:28
It has elements of this podcast in it, so it's like an extended

00:56:33
universe, I should say.

00:56:34
So it's something which you may be interested in as well.

00:56:37
Pete Iacono: Not like a multiverse.

00:56:38
Matt Fulton: Yeah, multiverse, yeah, an Aussieverse.

00:56:41
Pete Iacono: An Aussieverse.

00:56:42
There you go, there's a new one .

00:56:43
It's a exploityverse.

00:56:46
Matt Fulton: So that's coming soon and, as well as I do the

00:56:50
Champagne Comedy podcast, which is myself and my co-hosts,

00:56:57
review the catalogue of the Working Dog Comedy team.

00:57:02
Yeah, and look at that up on any podcast platform Champagne

00:57:06
Comedy podcast.

00:57:07
And yeah, I'm just floating around on socials as well.

00:57:11
I'm very active on Twitter at MattFoltoncomau and my website

00:57:20
is mattfoltoncomau.

00:57:23
Pete Iacono: Excellent, excellent.

00:57:23
So you're one of the people like me still calls it Twitter?

00:57:27
Yeah, I'm pretty much the call it, but I'm also on Blue Sky.

00:57:35
Matt Fulton: Yeah, I'm on Letterbox as well.

00:57:37
So ever since you mentioned that, I want you to better make

00:57:40
the effort, so I'm on Letterbox is so good.

00:57:42
Mattfoltoncomau on Letterbox.

00:57:44
Goodness gracious, what are the socials?

00:57:46
Instagram, Mastodon Threads.

00:57:49
Pete Iacono: Excellent, all right.

00:57:50
Well, thank you so much for coming on.

00:57:51
It's always a pleasure having you on and having a good chat

00:57:55
with you about all these weird Australian films, and these two

00:57:58
were definitely definitely that.

00:57:59
When we come back, we'll talk about what's coming up next.

00:58:03
And now preview time.

00:58:09
When it comes to entertainment, you can't beat a good film, so

00:58:19
let's take a look at what's coming your way.

00:58:21
The following is based on true events.

00:58:24
Can you interpret dreams?

00:58:29
Sometimes, how do you feel when you wake up from these dreams?

00:58:33
They scare me a bit For Alice Palmer.

00:58:45
Underneath the hopes of a bright future were suspicions.

00:58:49
I feel like something bad is going to happen to me.

00:58:52
The death was new.

00:58:56
Matt Fulton: You scared of dying ?

00:58:57
Yeah, of course I'm scared of dying.

00:58:59
That was the last time I saw her.

00:59:01
I kept hearing noises in the hallway.

00:59:05
It hasn't reached me yet, but it's on its way.

00:59:08
I feel like I can't do anything .

00:59:11
I think Alice saw a ghost.

00:59:15
I didn't have any rational explanation for who was in those

00:59:20
photos.

00:59:23
Pete Iacono: Something was happening inside their house and

00:59:24
I wanted to find out what it was.

00:59:27
Matt Fulton: There was a ghost in their house.

00:59:29
Lake Mungo.

00:59:48
Pete Iacono: Yeah, of course I'm scared of dying.

00:59:49
Isn't everyone scared of dying?

00:59:54
Next, on a dingo 8-mime movie, we dive into Lake Mungo.

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Get ready for a haunting journey through this Ozzy Corp

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