Australian/New Zealand movies: 1983

There's a slight drop-off in the number of movies this year but a higher number of movies that are mostly long forgotten. To finish this update I had to make videos from 8 movies that I hadn't done yet and ended up doing so much more than I was planning. This looks like the norm for the rest of the 80s as I've probably only watched about half of what's available. So the following updates are going to be a struggle until we get to the 90s.

There's also quite a number of movies listed with 1982 at the end of the movie but got a release in 1983 including Going Down, Goodbye Paradise, Kitty and the Bagman, Midnite Spares, Now and Forever and The Return of Captain Invincible plus Double Deal was made in 1981 and had it's very small release delayed until 1983. It's hard-to-know what year to put some of these movie so it's a bit of guess.

1983

At Last... Bullamakanka: The Motion Picture

Complete mess of a 'wacky' comedy about a bunch of local radicals who attempt to spoil things for the local mayor of Bullamakanka who's trying to impress the visiting boob of a prime minister. All while trying to rig the local elections, a beauty contest and a horse race that the mayor is also trying to rig. No real connection to anything in the plot, just things happening with pretty much every joke failing miserably while a slew of pointless cameos play out. The type of movie everyone involved would forget/deny they were involved in and another victim of the 10BA comedy curse.

There's one scene where Deni Gordon, Naomi Lisner and Susie Lindman strip naked and go into the water to provide a distraction for the radicals and we see all three women's breasts.

You can find a synopsis with videos from At Last... Bullamakanka: The Motion Picture here. A preview is below.

Deni Gordon, Naomi Lisner and Susie Lindeman (in order) in At last... Bullamakanka: The Motion Picture

   
   

 

 

Buddies

Pretty much forgotten comedy about two life long friends Mike (Colin Friels) and Johnny (Harold Hopkins) who mine for sapphires in Queensland but have hit on tough times not helped by the rules about how they can mine in the area about to be changed. They get under the skin of a local profiteer (Dennis Miller) which starts an all-out war between the friends and the profiteer which ends in a pretty cool bulldozer fight. Not a bad little movie but such a niche subject that hasn't helped it being rediscovered.

Some brief nudity from Kris McQuade (again!) and Rhonda Carling-Rogers when her blanket gets caught as a bulldozer is baring down on the house she is in.

You can find a synopsis with collages and videos from Buddies here. A preview is below.

Kris McQuade in Buddies

   

 

Rhonda Carling-Rogers in Buddies

   
   

 

 

The City's Edge

Moody drama where Andy (Hugo Weaving on debut) moves into a boarding house that is teetering on the edge of something incredibly awful happening. There's Laura (Katrina Foster) who lives with her drug addicted brother Jim (Mark Lee) and in a relationship with Indigenous man Jack (Tommy Lewis) who seems to have control over her. As he tries to get a writing career up and running, Andy begins an affair with Laura which catches the ire of Jack but he and Andy eventually become friends but this boils over when they get into a fight with local hotheads wanting to bash some homosexuals and results in Jack stabbing one of the hotheads defending Andy. Things get immeasurably worse for them ending in unnecessary tragedies. Grim stuff but Weaving was already showing how good of an actor he'd become. Very frustrating watching people throw away their lives for not very much at all.

Some brief side-boob action from Katrina Foster leaving the bed a couple of times plus a stripper named Zero shows her breasts. Also interesting to see Joanne Samuel from Mad Max already relegated to sex worker roles.

Katrina Foster in The City's Edge

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Joanne Samuel and Susan Leith in The City's Edge

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Zero in The City's Edge

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Double Deal

Disastrous mess of an adult thriller where rich arsehole Peter (French actor Louis Jourdan) is tired of his younger model wife Christine (Angela Punch McGregor, the least likely actress to play a model ever). So he starts back up again with his long suffering secretary Miss Stevens (Diane Craig). Meanwhile, Christine becomes intrigued by a motorcycle helmet wearing weirdo (Warwick Comber) who is following her and together they decide to stage a phony kidnapping to get Peter's precious rare gemstone and run away together. From there it turns into who is conning who and honestly I didn't care by the end because the movie becomes incredibly silly. Both Jourdan and Punch McGregor are wasted in the movie and Warwick Comber's character is so baffling he doesn't even have a name. Just a poorly put together movie and it's no surprise that it was shot in 1981 but only given a token one cinema release in 1983. Deservedly forgotten.

Some brief nudity behind a shower screen from Angela Punch McGregor plus Diane Craig briefly shows her bottom and side of her right breast as she enters and gets out of a hot tub. It's actually quite strange seeing Diane Craig in sexy roles early in her career because she spent the better part of the 90s/2000s playing matriarch characters. She's actually quite sexy in this movie, one of the few memorable things about it.

I've capped this from a fairly decent VHS rip although the aspect ratio is strangely off. There's an obscure DVD of the movie I haven't gotten around to getting plus it's available of Umbrella's free (I think to just Australians) streaming service Broille.

Angela Punch McGregor in Double Deal

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Diane Craig in Double Deal

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Kerry Daniel in Double Deal

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Going Down

Set over the night before Karli (Tracy Mann) goes to New York for a new job, three of her friends Jane (Vera Plevnik), Jackie (Julie Barry) and Ellen (Moira MacLaine-Cross) decide to give her a farewell she'll won't forget (or remember). But trouble starts early when the $3,000 Karli's father gave her goes missing. She tries to have a good time with shady 'friend' Michael (Esben Storm) while Jane fucks her way through the night and Jackie tries her luck as a sex worker. Ends with a ridiculous mad dash to the airport even Richard Curtis (Notting Hill, Love Actually) would think was too much. A strange mix of comedy and social drama that doesn't quite work but isn't all bad.

Some brief nudity from Vera Plevnik while having sex in the back of a panel van and Moira MacLaine-Cross briefly shows her breasts before putting on a jumper.

Vera Plevnik in Going Down

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Moira MacLaine-Cross in Going Down

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Goodbye Paradise

Densely layered fever dream set in the craziness that was early 80s Bjelke-Petersen Queensland where disgraced former police commissioner Michael Stacey (Ray Barrett, startling great), now full-time drunk and wannabe writer, is dragged into the upcoming mess that is the breakaway Gold Coast State. He's been charged to find the errant daughter Cathy (Janet Scrivener in her only ever movie) of a senator by her father and what happens from there gets more bizarre and frantic by the minute. So much is going on I was still finding things out while capping it and I don't think I fully understand it. Crazy but infinitely interesting potboiler. Can't believe I've never seen this before...

There's some brief side-boob/hint of bottom from Janet Scrivener while she's presumed dead plus she's in a see-through dress. There's also nudity from a stripper character in two scenes who's strangely uncredited plus random nudity from unknown women throughout the movie. I have a feeling that woman changing in the video below might be Margaret Dupre, it looks like her plus she's listed as uncredited on IMDB.

Janet Scrivener in Goodbye Paradise

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Robyn Nevin in Goodbye Paradise

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Kris McQuade in Goodbye Paradise

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Kareen Michelle in Goodbye Paradise

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Sue Collie in Goodbye Paradise

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Stripper in Goodbye Paradise

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Various Women in Goodbye Paradise

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Hostage: The Christine Maresch Story
aka Savage Attraction

Absolutely nutty 'based on a true story' about an abused girl Christine (Kerry Mack) who falls for a complete Nazi nut-job German dissident Walter (German actor Ralph Schicha). He coaxes Christine into his crazy world of Nazi takeover plots and his penchant for performing robberies to finance his lifestyle all while becoming incredibly possessive of her. She desperately tries to escape his clutches which ends on a boat in the middle of the sea and a baby with a crossbow. A movie that gets crazier by the minute and while it's debatable whether or not it's any good, it's certainly very watchable.

Multiple nude scenes from Kerry Mack, some very good nudity from her and even more in the fullscreen version of the movie.

You can find a synopsis with collages and HD and VHS fullscreen videos from Hostage: The Christine Maresch Story here. A preview is below.

Kerry Mack in Hostage: The Christine Maresch Story

   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   

 

 

Kitty and the Bagman

Bawdy comedy/drama set in 1920s Sydney loosely based on the razor gang wars during that time. Kitty O'Rourke (Liddy Clark) is left to fend for herself after her hopeless husband is jailed so she gets a job as a barmaid with Doris (Colette Mann) who tells her she needs to assert herself to get a husband. She meets Cyril (Gerard Maguire) who wants to set up a brothel and along the way pisses off local 'entrepreneur' Big Lil (Val Lehman) and the Bagman (John Stanton), a local cop who runs the town. The Bagman lets Kitty run Cyril's new brothel and she comes into competition with Big Lil setting off their own little battle. Movie that plays more as a bawdy comedy so it feels a bit dated and doesn't quite work overall.

There's a scene where Liddy Clark's breast falls out of her ripped dress while fighting another woman plus a couple of nude scenes from Centrespread's Kylie Foster including one where she's forced out onto the street naked by Kitty.

You can find a synopsis with collages and videos from Kitty and the Bagman here. A preview is below.

Liddy Clark in Kitty and the Bagman

   
   

 

Kylie Foster in Kitty and the Bagman

   
   
   

 

 

The Lost Tribe (NZ)

Weird thriller where an obsessed anthropologist Edward Scarry (John Bach) goes missing, so his wife Ruth (Darien Takle) calls his twin brother Max (also John Bach) to help look for him on a remote island that it known for where a 'lost tribe' was found to be living. It looks like Edward has been killed, possibly by the 'lost tribe' but his body hasn't been found and no-one is willing to look for him. So Max and Ruth go to the remote island leaving her daughter with the local police officer but she seems to have psychic powers and can see what is happening. The movie gets good purchase from the twin brother trope and hammers it into the ground. You know something shady is up with both twins but what it turns out to be is strangely more conventional than it was made out to be. Interesting but the film's idea of a 'lost tribe' turns out to be a bit of misnomer which is a shame.

A couple of lengthy nude scenes featuring Darien Takle who shows her breasts and bottom.

You can find a synopsis with collages and videos from The Lost Tribe here. A preview is below.

Darien Takle in The Lost Tribe

   
   
   

 

 

Man of Flowers

Paul Cox is back at his artiest. A middle aged man of indeterminate wealth Charles (Norman Kaye) enjoys the finer things in life which includes hiring a nude model (Alyson Best) to ogle. But things become complicated in her life with her drug addict poser artist boyfriend (Chris Haywood) so Charles offers her refuge and she ingratiates herself into his life, which he doesn't mind. Then her boyfriend gets off the drugs and realises he needs his cash cow back and bribes Charles into buying his art, which Charles thinks is crap. The boyfriend doesn't let up so Charles puts together a plan to end all their troubles. The plot is minimal and scenes go on forever and is mostly forgettable except for Charles' murder plot is an absolute doozy almost worth watching for that alone.

Plenty of nudity from Alyson Best plus full frontal nudity from Sarah Walker in her only acting role as she's now better known as a TV writer. Victoria Eagger briefly shows full frontal nudity and so does Hilary Kelly.

You can find a synopsis with collages and videos from Man of Flowers here. A preview is below.

Alyson Best in Man of Flowers

   
   
   
   
   
  

 

Sarah Walker in Man of Flowers

   
   
   

 

Victoria Eagger in Man of Flowers

   
   

 

Hilary Kelly in Man of Flowers

   

 

 

Midnite Spares

Another car action movie, this one played more for comedy with wannabe race car driver Steve (James Laurie) wanting to get back with his father but he has mysteriously disappeared. So he works with his father's wacky buddies at their mechanic shop while getting his car ready for racing. While he looks for his father, Steve comes across corrupt cops who help keep an intricate car stealing ring from being found out. He also falls for Ruth (Gia Carides) but he has to get the approval of her uncle and her voluminous family who look over her shoulder at all times. A fun movie that turns angry in the end and while the supporting cast is full of the usual loons, the lead actor is complete dead weight, rarely seen again.

A couple of nude scenes from in demand Playboy Playmate of the Year Amanda Dole including a pretty decent stripping scene.

You can find a synopsis with collages and HD videos from Midnite Spares here. A preview is below.

Amanda Dole in Midnite Spares

   
   
   
   

 

 

Moving Out

Teen drama based on a book every kid read in the 80s about Gino (Vince Colosimo on debut) who is the son of an immigrant who's trying to make his way but learns he's moving with the other Greek immigrants to Dandenong and thinks he's going to lose everything he has in his inner Melbourne suburb. Solid drama and Colosimo is well-cast in the lead.

No nudity in the movie but there's are some sexy scenes which are available here.

 

 

Now and Forever

Danielle Steel adaptation where Jessie (American actress Cheryl Ladd) comes home to her husband Ian (Robert Coleby) and everything seems fine until he is charged of raping another woman (Christine Amor), who he had an affair with. Despite an obvious false allegation, Ian is jailed and Jessie tries to get him out. Then she meets Geoffrey (Rod Mullinar) and things become further strained in her marriage. Typical Danielle Steel stuff all very melodramatic and soapy with a too ridiculous plot.

Cheryl Ladd goes for a nude swim where you sort of see something I guess.

You can find a synopsis with collages and videos from Now and Forever here. A preview is below.

Cheryl Ladd in Now and Forever

   

 

 

Prisoners (NZ unreleased)

Ooooh, this one is interesting. I'll let IMDB trivia set it up.

What are the odds it has something to do with a 19 year-old Tatum O'Neal doing scenes her daddy don't approve of. Check out this plot:

Too bad we'll never see it.

 

 

The Return of Captain Invincible

Superhero musical from nutty director Philippe Mora (Mad Dog Morgan) where American superhero Captain Invincible (Alan Arkin) retires to Australia after been drummed out during the McCarthy Trials. He is found years later by a local cop Patty (Kate Fitzpatrick) for the new American president (Michael Pate) to save the world from nutty bad guy Mr. Midnight (Christopher Lee). But he's a drunk and out-of-shape and it's up to Patty to get him back into shape. Typical Mora craziness where both Arkin and Lee go for it, even singing a few songs each. A weird, wild ride that doesn't quite work but is never boring. See the Director's Cut as the original release was butchered.

Only nudity in the movie is from some extras which Mora describes in his own typical way on the commentary. There's further sexy stuff from Kate Fitzpatrick, Amanda Dole, Cali and Kareen Michelle, who's only other movie was Goodbye Paradise (see above).

I've made HD upgrade videos from the movie which you can see below. You can find a synopsis with the HD videos from The Return of Captain Invincible here.

Kate Fitzpatrick in The Return of Captain Invincible

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Amanda Dole in The Return of Captain Invincible

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Kareen Michelle and Cali in The Return of Captain Invincible

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Unknowns in The Return of Captain Invincible

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Skin Deep

Soapy TV set in a modelling agency run by two friends where things go to shit when one of their daughters starts modelling then a wannabe teenage model (very early role for Nicole Kidman) is found murdered. Then there's the sleazy agency client who likes to have his way with the models and sets his sights on the daughter. Don't forget the drunken host who likes showing his incredibly offensive 'elephant' impression. Absolute low rent TV soap stuff, completely forgettable.

There's no nudity in Skin Deep but I did make a bunch of videos which you can find here.

 

 

A Slice of Life

John D. Lamond is back again with this shambles of a comedy about Toby (British sitcom star Robin Nedwell) who goes in for surgery and has an 'accidental vasectomy' which ruins his chances of a family with his girlfriend (Juliet Jordan) but gives him the ability to have 'free sex' with the women that he meets. Then seven women come forward and say that he got them pregnant. Uh oh! Typical low rent Lamond stuff but he's dumped the sleaze and everything is fairly tame. Gotta love the sex worker who's happy to have unprotected sex with a man who tells her he had a vasectomy. Come on...

No nudity in the movie, a little bit of side-boob from Amanda Muggleton as the aforementioned sex worker plus a few other sexy scenes.

Juliet Jordan in A Slice of Life

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Amanda Muggleton in A Slice of Life

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Julie Nihill in A Slice of Life

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Lulu Pinkus in A Slice of Life

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Trespasses (NZ)
aka Omen of Evil

Murder mystery set in (where else?) small town New Zealand where a typically randy cult leader (Frank Whitten) is murdered and the suspects include the young woman he impregnated Katie (British actress Emma Piper), her overbearing father (Patrick McGoohan being very Patrick McGoohan) or her boyfriend (Andy Anderson) who stupidly lured Katie into the cult. Apparently a feature length spin-off of the New Zealand TV series Mortimer's Patch which you wouldn't know as the original characters barely play a part into the final act. A strange mix of a proper movie and a TV movie.

A couple of brief nude scenes from Emma Piper plus Vivian Laube is in a very flimsy singlet top. The videos below are from a not bad VHS rip that I bought off an online source 15 years ago and I've only just looked at for the first time since. Ha...

Emma Piper in Trespasses

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Vivian Laube in Trespasses

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The Winds of Jarrah

Mills and Boon adaptation set after World War II about a woman (Susan Lyons) who has run away from a bad relationship to take a job teaching kids on a remote farm run by their uncle (Terence Donovan). While there she flirts with other local men who work at the timber mill like Jack (Harold Hopkins) and Clem (Steve Bisley) but she burns a flame for the uncle (she needs to see Steve Bisley in his cut-offs from The Little Feller). Typical Mills and Boon melodrama, very tawdry and at only 75 minutes feels incredibly insubstantial. You know what's going to happen, you're just waiting for it to happen.

No nudity but Susan has a couple of scenes in a nightie.

Susan Lyons in The Winds of Jarrah

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There's also a batch of movies that have no nudity in them including Australian favourite Phar Lap, a couple of early Nicole Kidman movies Bush Christmas and BMX Bandits plus the thriller Chase Through the Night featuring Nicole, the Wendy Hughes/John Hargreaves drama Careful He Might Hear You, a bunch of family movies Dusty, Molly (Claudia Karvan's debut) and Platypus Cove, an adaptation of The Wild Duck starring Liv Ullmann and Jeremy Irons, the court room drama With Prejudice and the footy comedy Warming Up. There's also the animated movies Abra Cadabra, Dot and the Bunny and Epic.

There's also a few New Zealand movies with nothing to cap including the David Bowie starring internment camp drama Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence (with Takeshi Kitano), the brutal Maori revenge drama Utu and the wacky Tommy Lee Jones starring pirate movie Nate and Hayes aka Savage Islands. It is unknown what is in the movies The Body Corporate, Outbreak of Hostilities and the New Zealand movie Strata.

Now I'm running into the problem that the next few years have a lot of movies to get through and I might not be finished by the next Sunday plus it looks likely I might need more than one update. We'll see what happens but the next few years are stacked.

 

Tags: Katrina Foster, Joanne Samuel, Susan Leith, Zero, Vera Plevnik, Moira Maclaine-Cross, Angela Punch-McGregor, Diane Craig, Kerry Daniel, Janet Scrivener, Robyn Nevin, Kris McQuade, Kareen Michelle, Sue Collie, Kate Fitzpatrick, Amanda Dole, Cali, Juliet Jordan, Amanda Muggleton, Julie Nihill, Lulu Pinkus, Emma Piper, Vivian Laube, Susan Lyons