They're a Weird Mob (1966) Watch Online Trailer

Nino Culotta is an Italian immigrant, newly arrived in Australia. Much of the story is taken up with Nino's attempts to understand the aspirational values and social rituals of everyday urban Australians of the 1950's and 60's, and assimilate.



They're a Weird Mob (1966)
Released: 13 Oct 1966
Runtime: 112 min
Director: Michael Powell
Writer(s): John O'Grady (novel), Emeric Pressburger (screenplay)
Actors: Walter Chiari, Claire Dunne, Chips Rafferty, Alida Chelli
IMDB Ratings: 6.6



Plot: Nino Culotta is an Italian immigrant who arrived in Australia with the promise of a job as a journalist on his cousin's magazine, only to find that when he gets there the magazine's folded, the cousins done a runner & the money his cousin sent for the fare was borrowed from the daughter of the boss of a local construction firm. So Nino tries to get a job & finishes up ... laying bricks. Nino works hard & makes friends with lots of locals, Nino & Kay argue a lot, Nino & Kay fall in love ... Kay takes Nino to meet 'Daddy' but daddy hates journalists, immigrants and bricklayers (he's now BOSS of a construction firm). Nino starts to win him over with his charm & determination to marry Kay.