The TRUE STORY OF ESKIMO
NELL (dir. Richard Franklin, 1975) Australian R-rated comedy starring sex
symbol Abigail and Grahame (Auntie Jack) Bond.
Australian daybill poster (76cm
x 33.5cm) from the film's original cinema release.
SYNOPSIS: In The True Story
Of Eskimo Nell, Max Gillies plays Deadeye Dick, peeping tom, foul-smelling
bullshit artist, failed bushranger and all-round hopeless sack of shit. He
teams up with champion dick-wrangler Mexico Pete (Serge Lazareff) after a
disastrous liaison involving an irate husband, and together they go searching
for Dick’s sexual El-Dorado, the mythical first-rate whore and “Queen Whomper”
named Eskimo Nell. They eventually come across “Nell” in a cheesy mountain
hotel, and is hardly what Pete imagined, but Dick, lost in his one-eyed
dreamworld, discovers the one glimmer of happiness his sad existence had denied
him.
The 1973 British sex comedy
Eskimo Nell had already covered the making of a fictitious softcore version (as
well as a gay western, kung fu and sickly family version!) of the famous bawdy
19th Century poem by a unscrupulous smut film producer. Franklin’s
version, co-written with Alan (Alvin Purple) Hopgood, sticks closer to the
source material and transposes the action to a more culturally iconic stomping
ground: the Ballarat Goldfields, the Eureka Stockade, the snow-capped Blue Mountains. The ambitious Franklin’s second unit even
filmed the Klondike scenes - where Dick supposedly loses his eye - outside
Montreal, and some incredible location shots such as the iceflows from the
Canadian far north helped win the film an AFI award for Best Photography.
CONDITION: Good. Some
creases near the corners and folds, and small age stains.
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