Australian movies: 1970

Heading into the 1970s and the Australian film industry is still in it's fledgling stage, still mostly entrepreneurs and hobbyists. Things are starting to cook with the movie Ned Kelly starring Mick Jagger released this year but there's only a handful of movies released this year.

1970

Beyond Reason

Independent movie from the director of Clay (1965) that looks at a group of doctors, nurses and patients at a mental health hospital who believe that a nuclear bomb has exploded in Melbourne (ah, OK) and they hide in the hospital's bunker only to get locked in. Things quickly devolve from there. Almost completely lost movie, the copy I found is pretty ratty but watchable and the credits are very thin with only the main actors given their character names and everyone else just listed. There's an actress who has a couple of scenes where she takes off her shirt at the drop of a hat, exposing her breasts but I have no idea who she is despite her character's name being Lydia. There's about 4 actresses listed in the credits, so it's doubtless one of them.

Maggie Copeland in Beyond Reason

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Unknown in Beyond Reason

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The Naked Bunyip

Documentary that uses the fictional premise of a reporter (Graeme Blundell of Alvin Purple fame basically playing the same character with less female interest) who is asked to look into the state of sex around Australia. Over two and a quarter hours long and quite an extensive lot of the second half is about homosexuality (a very 1970 version of it). There's a lot of interviews (including a bafflingly unfunny one with Dame Edna Everage) and a fair bit of nudity from anonymous people as barely anyone is named except for 'important' talking heads. Locally famous transwoman Carlotta is interviewed about her show Les Girls and her life which is still surprisingly prescient about current trans issues. There's a 2014 telemovie about Carlotta starring Jessica Marais that has a little bit of nudity in it. Jacki Weaver is also interviewed saying she's never been asked to take her clothes off. That would change soon (see Alvin Purple). Otherwise, I have no idea who anyone else is.

In some of the videos below you'll see scenes where an animated picture of a 'naked bunyip' appears which comes up in parts where the filmmakers were told to censor the scene. It comes up surprisingly regularly and in the most random of moments. A lesbian kiss is censored. Very strange.

I capped these from a VHS rip so there might be an issue particularly with the audio but the videos are otherwise fine. I think I have the DVD somewhere but I couldn't be fucked finding it.

Carlotta in The Naked Bunyip

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Jacqueline Passmore in The Naked Bunyip

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Various Unknowns in The Naked Bunyip

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48661kb 2min 40sec 720x540 (one woman in bra and bodysuit, another shows plenty of cleavage in slip and panties, very lengthy)

49129kb 2min 31sec 720x540 (breasts, bum, bikini bottoms, very lengthy)

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The Set

I capped this movie back in May 2021 after a HD release was released. Odd movie about two men who find one another despite being interested in women. Tries to have a discussion of gay men but is very coy about it.

There's a bit of nudity in the movie from Hazel Phillips, Julie Rodgers and Ann Aczel. Previews of the nudity from the movie feature below.

Hazel Phillips in The Set

   
   

 

Julie Rodgers in The Set

   
   
   

 

Ann Aczel in The Set

   
   

 

That Lady from Peking

Another movie from the American director of Color Me Dead (1969, see previous update) and It Takes All Kinds (1969) who made another B-grade movie for American audiences starring American actors Carl Benz, Nancy Kwan and singer Bobby Rydell. This time it's a spy thriller with an East Asian angle.

Interestingly, in the versions available online there's a scene where Australian actress Sandy Gore is in the bath but there's some very dramatic edits in the scene heavily suggesting something was cut out. Thankfully Ozmovies has posted pics from an uncut version of the movie where we see Sandy's breasts and bottom. I've post a few pics below but that is all that's available at the moment. Generally surprised to see Sandy in a nude scene as I can't remember her having any such scenes in the many things I've seen her in and she still turns up fairly regularly in TV and movies. Hopefully the uncut version can be found.

Sandy Gore in That Lady from Peking

   
   

 

Other movies released in 1970 including Ned Kelly and Squeeze a Flower have no nudity while Strange Holiday is a kids movie. Jack and Jill: A Postscript has some sexy stuff in it but the actors are fairly unknown and it isn't worth the time to cap. Another couple of movies, Dead Easy and Nothing Like Experience are not available and it isn't clear whether there's anything worth capping in them.

 

Tags: Maggie Copeland, Carlotta, Jacqueline Passmore, Sandy Gore