We journey to the Outback with about 15 "Ozploitation" films - from 1971-1987, 16 years - 15 works of Aussie excellence.
Loosely (oh who am I kidding, entirely) inspired by the excellent documentary, Not Quite Hollywood: The Untold Story of Ozploitation, hopefully coming soon to DVD.
In this documentary, we learned that former James Bond actor George Lazenby was actually set on fire in 1975's The Man from Hong Kong, Dennis Hopper was a drugged-up motherfucking jerkoff no matter what country he was in (and was, in fact, prohibited from not only driving - but from being a passenger in a car due to his Outback antics), and many more excellent, bizarre, and almost impossible-to-believe facts we'll unleash in next week's podcast.
For now, we leave you with the documentary's trailer, a quite excellent deleted bit of interview from the documentary, and brief clips/half-trailers from the two films that bookend our Ozploitation queue.
The Not Quite Hollwyood trailer (NSFW):
World-Class Misanthrope Film Critic Bob Ellis on Peter Weir (Deleted Scene from the Documentary):
A Scene from Wake In Fright (Feat. Donald Pleasance):
(Most of the) Howling III: The Marsupials trailer:
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