The Adventures of Barry McKenzie (1972)

Director:

Bruce Beresford

Writers:

Bruce Beresford, Barry Humphries

Stars:

Barry Crocker, Barry Humphries, Spike Milligan

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Barry Crocker	...	Barry McKenzie
Barry Humphries	...	Aunt Edna Everage / Hoot / Dr DeLamphrey
Spike Milligan	...	Landlord
Peter Cook	...	Dominic
Paul Bertram	...	Curly
Dennis Price	...	Mr. Gort
Avice Landone	...	Mrs. Gort
Mary Ann Severne	...	Lesley
Jenny Tomasin	...	Sarah Gort
Dick Bentley	...	Detective
Julie Covington	...	Blanche
Judith Furse	...	Claude
Christopher Malcolm	...	Sean
Maria O'Brien	...	Caroline Thighs
Margo Lloyd	...	Mrs. McKenzie

Storyline

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Plot Keywords:

playing guitar | typewriter | reference to harry houdini | packing a suitcase | sucking on one's thumb | 

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Taglines:

Cripes!! The things these pom sheilahs will do in front of a camera !!!! [Australian theatrical daybill movie poster]

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Genres:

Comedy

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Details

Country:

Australia

Language:

English

Release Date:

12 October 1972 (UK)

Filming Locations:

Earl's Court, London, England, UK

Company Credits

Production Co:

Longford Productions

Technical Specs

Runtime:

114 min

Sound Mix:

Mono

Color:

Color (Eastmancolor)

Did You Know?

Trivia

Leslie and Claude live in a house called 'Radcliffe Hall'. This is a reference to the novelist Radcliffe Hall, author of the 1928 lesbian novel 'The Well of Loneliness' - at one point Claude asks Edna if she has ever 'dipped into' it.

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Goofs

In Caroline Thigh's flat Barry empties the curried chicken and prawn aphrodisiac down his boxers, staining his t-shirt. When he is thrown out of her flat the t-shirt is clean.

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Quotes

Landlord: [reading from newspaper] "I had six pints of Guinness and everything went black..."

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Connections

Referenced in The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (1994)

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Soundtracks

"Eton Boating Song"
(uncredited)
Words by William Johnson
Music by Algernon Drummond
Heard during the Den Schoolboy/Master Sadomasochism Scene

User Reviews

Cult status

A hit at the time but now better categorised as an Australian cult film. The humour is broad, unsubtle and, in the final scene where a BBC studio fire is extinguished by urinating on it, crude. Contains just about every cliche about the traditional Australian pilgrimage to 'the old country', and every cliche about those rapacious, stuck up, whinging, Tory Brits. Would be acceptable to the British because of its strong cast of well known actors, and to Australians of that generation, who can 'get' the humour. Americans -- forget it. The language and jokes are in the Australian dialect of English and as such will be unintelligible.