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This Australian lampoon of historical epics stars Kim Gyngell as William John Wills and Garry McDonald as Robert O'Hara Burke, two real-life Australian explorers. Setting about to travel across the Australian continent and back again, Wills and Burke both perish on the return trip. In rehashing this oft-told story, director Bob Weis and screenwriter Philip Dalkin decided to play for laughs. Evidently many domestic viewers missed the point, inasmuch as Weis was compelled to tack the words The Wacky World Of... onto his title. Still, the film was greeted with stony silence by non-Australian audiences, who neither knew nor cared who Wills and Burke were.