by Sandra Brennan
synopsis
This comedy, based on Barry Oakley's popular novel Salute to the Great McCarthy chronicles the adventurous and amorous exploits of an Australian country boy. The whole mess begins when the strapping lad is kidnapped and taken to Melbourne to play Australian Rules Football. The perpetrator and owner of the team is Colonel Humphries who also gives the young man a job in his insurance company. There the lad has great fun making love to a series of women--including the colonel's daughter.
characteristics
keywords
gigolo
kidnapping
insurance
night-school
school
teacher
secretary
romance
football
colonel
Casanova
business
country-boy
daughter
extramarital-affair
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