The True Story of Eskimo Nell

The True Story of Eskimo Nell (1975)

Genres - Comedy, Western  |   Sub-Genres - Docudrama  |   Run Time - 103 min.  |   Countries - Australia  |   MPAA Rating - NR
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Synopsis by Michael Betzold

An offbeat Australian comedy filmed in that country and in Canada, this is not the documentary its title suggests. Its unlikely protagonist is a mild-mannered window peeper named Dead-Eye Dick (Max Gillies). Dick spies on a Mexican couple. The husband is very jealous and is about to discover that his wife has a lover when Dead-Eye Dick rescues the lover, whose moniker is Mexico Pete (Serge Lazareff). The worldly Pete counsels the shy Dick on his problems approaching women. Dick claims that he's waiting for an Alaskan Eskimo named Nell. Pete and Dick decide to travel to Alaska to find this fantasy woman, and they have several wacky misadventures along the way. This mostly overlooked ripple in the Australian New Wave was produced, directed, and written by Richard Franklin.

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Eskimo, friendship, help, journey, love, Mexico, peeping-tom, rescue, rogue, traveling