Recommending a good movie: "Walkabout" from 1971 with Jenny Aguttar.

[elocs]

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067959/

A boy and girl face the challenge of the world's last frontier. Dangers they had never known before... A people they had never seen before...

The Aborigine and the girl 30,000 years apart ...together

Just about the most different film you'll ever see

Filmed in its entirety in the Australian wilderness

Nicolas Roeg's Uncut Directorial Masterpiece

I watched the uncut version on NetFlix streaming video last night using my Roku box so I could view it on my 50" plasma and it looked good. It is an unusual film and a nice find on NetFlix streaming video.

Oh, the boy and girl are brother and sister.

[elocs]

1. Here is a clip from You Tube about it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3x186dbPIoM

[bikebloke]

2. I saw it when it came out.

I'll have to revisit it since the only thing that impressed my young senses was Jenny Agutter's swim.

[elocs]

8. You will have to rewatch it because much was originally censored from the movie

and it was mostly Jenny Agutter. When I was 16 I would have been hopelessly smitten with a girl who looked as good as she did.

Like I said, any who have NetFlix can get it on their streaming video.

[canoeist52]

3. I remember watching it in 1971 too. I was 16 yrs old.

Made an impression on me.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

4. Yes, fine film, and David Gupilil, who played the Aboriginal lad

that the brother and sister encounter, grew up to play the tracker who goes after the fugitive girls in Rabbit Proof Fence.

[rebel with a cause]

6. He played King George in

Australia in 2008. Loved the way he could stand on one leg similar to a stork. I do well to stand on two.

[elocs]

10. I didn't realize that. He has had a long career.

I enjoyed "Australia" as well.

[rebel with a cause]

12. I didn't either...

I cheated and looked him up on IMDb out of curiosity. I was thinking of the tracker in Australia so imagine my surprise when I saw he was King George.

I saw 'Rabbit Proof Fence' and my son said I really liked it. Unfortunately, I saw it during a time of which I have little if any memory of due to health problems suffered then and their lasting effect. I am going to have to re-see it because that part of 'Australia', the government taking the 'cremes' to train them for servants, really made me take notice. My son was shocked that I didn't remember seeing 'Rabbit Proof Fence'. I guess it is hard for them to understand that several years of my life are mostly gone for me.

[rebel with a cause]

5. In the mid 1970s I got hooked on

Australian mini series that they showed on NYC television. Don't remember their names but they were a lot better than USA tv at that time, at least I thought so. Would love to see a couple of them now.

One was about the history of Australia and what lead to the first prisoner/slave becoming president of it. It was mostly about the Irish girl that was brought over and she started educating the prisoners and fell in love with one of them. Of course he was the one who succeeded.

Another one was about a girl from a rich family that married a boat captain and traveled up and down the river (I think it was a river) with him on the boat.

There was another one that was similar to the last one, just different poor man.

[OffWithTheirHeads]

7. I rember it. Good Flick. nt

Walkabout, right?

[hippywife]

9. I saw it too when it was out.

I've thought about it off and on since then, about watching it again. Thanx for the reminder.

[elocs]

11. Another haunting and mysterious film from Australia was "Picnic at Hanging Rock".

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073540/

Here is a YouTube video about it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MC0DbTTiHIQ

I haven't seen it in years (it's from 1975) but it is still memorable.

[bikebloke]

13. I remembered something while out riding.

I read somewhere that the censored version wasn't taking out nudity, but the real killing of animals for food.

A side note: Last summer I checked out the DVD for MI-5/Spooks - Series 1 from the library. One actress seemed familiar. Then it dawned on me. Jenny Aggutter, my teenage lust/crush had turned middle-aged...Ohh, the humanity ;)

Another aside while I'm here: David Gupilil not only has been in many Aussie films over the years, but he directed an Aboriginal film called Ten Canoes. I've seen the trailer, but not the film.


That's all. I'll leave now.