She'll Be Sweet

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She'll Be Sweet
Directed by Gene Levitt
Written byColin Free
Produced byGeoffrey Daniels
Starring Tony Lo Bianco
Sally Kellerman
Anne Semler
Rod Mullinar
Music byKevin Johnson [1]
Production
company
Distributed byABC
Release date
1978
Running time
92 mins
CountryAustralia
LanguageEnglish

She'll Be Sweet is a 1978 Australian television film. [2]

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The film was also known as Magee and the Lady. [3] It was the sixth and last television film made by the ABC in association with Transatlantic Enterprises.

Plot

Captain Magee is a sailor whose boat is bought from under him by a millionaire tycoon. He tries to find the tycoon with the help of the tycoon's daughter.

Cast

Production

Filming started in Sydney on 31 October 1977. [4]

Reception

The Sydney Morning Herald wrote that "Colin Free's script is indeed clever. He has given Lo Bianco and Kellerman some of the funniest banter heard in a long time." [5] Another critic in the same paper called it "the last (one fervently hopes) of its disastrous Pelexmovies...in this travesty of a B-rated western, an improbable script saw the improbable hero and heroine (both American let it be noted not Australian) simulating The Perils and Pauline in an improbable Hunter Valley." [6]

Another review in the same paper said " plot is improbable and unconvincing... The movie's tacit acceptance of his immorality is distasteful. Then we're asked to believe the scruffy seafarer and his shrewish captive fall irresistibly and dfreamily in love. As Bob Hawke might say, "Balderdash"." [7]

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References

  1. ↑ "The best years have been good years". The Canberra Times . Australian Capital Territory, Australia. 19 October 1981. p. 3. Retrieved 10 January 2020– via Trove.
  2. ↑ At the Movies: Bertolucci brings Liv Ullmann to Brooklyn. Flatley, Guy. New York Times ]25 Nov 1977: 71
  3. ↑ Ed. Scott Murray, Australia on the Small Screen 1970-1995, Oxford Uni Press, 1996 p140
  4. ↑ Don Groves, "Hot Lips to Star in ABC Movie", The Sydney Morning Herald 23 October 1977 accessed 15 July 2013
  5. ↑ "January 8, 1979 A hilarious dig at the polo set in new telemovie". Sydney Morning Herald. p. 14.
  6. ↑ Semmler, Clement (31 January 1979). "Need for decent Aust dramas". Sydney Morning Herald. p. 8.
  7. ↑ Groves, Don (7 January 1979). "Sight n Sound". Sydney Morning Herald. p. 55.


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