Among the bevy of lovelies chasing after alvin are later academy award nominee jacki weaver of animal kingdom and silver linings playbook, and singlenamed aussie pinup sensation abigail, best known for starring in the racy australian sitcom number 96. The young man everybody loves is back for more funloving adventure in this sequel to the audacious rompcomedy success alvin purple. Alvin purple ozploitation classics umbrella entertainment. Our mail order service is still open for business and we can still deliver on time in the majority of cases. As of 2015, cherry red are proud to represent 30 hertz as part of our family of associated labels. Alvin purple graeme blundell, dons party is a young, naive man with a great future ahead of him. But there is more to alvin than meets the eye, and it is not. Holding it up to todays standards where the sex comedy is much more crass and explicit, the shock value pales in comparison, but even if these days its more nice than naughty, alvin purple is far from a bedroom disappointment. Urban cinefile alvin purplealvin purple rides again. Alvin purple graeme blundell, dons party is a young, nave man with a great future ahead of him. Alvin purple rewatched the raunchy centre of the 70s. Alvin purple was an australian television situation comedy series made by the australian broadcasting corporation in 1976.
Had already watched the movie and its sequel alvin rides again and as a 15 year old there was no way i was not going to see this. The film that created a market for australian films worldwide. Average guy antihero alvin purple graeme blundell was at the heart of it, the floppyhaired centre round which all manner of carnal pleasures and perversities orbited. Alvin purple 1973 actor graeme blundell made something of a name for himself, by appearing in a few australian softcore sex comedies of the seventies.
A controversial benchmark of australian cinema and a monumental part of the 70s ozploitation movement, alvin purple is tim burstalls petersen legendary film that introduced fullfrontal nudity to a mainstream audience and blazed a trail of outrageous rompinspired cinematic mayhem. Alvin purple is not a good looking man, in fact you could say that he is pretty ugly. Its rare that i feel compelled to pick up a pen and write about things deep purple these days. Linscription est necessaire pour regarder le film en 1080p hd. Really starting to doubt the pillars that my education is built on. The plot is a bawdy sendup that subverts conventional male sexual fantasies. Blundell reprised the title role in both, as well as in the 1984 movie melvin, son of alvin. Overall package the first film in this two disc package is the original alvin purple, released in 1973 and a huge financial success for the fledgling hexagon productions.
Hong kong cop and martial artist fang sing leng travels to sydney to extradite a drug dealer, but when the hood is assassinated on his way to court, everyone suspects jack wilton, an untouchable crime lord. A 1974 film sequel alvin purple rides again toneddown the sex scenes and nudity, adding more camp comedy. A film with progressive instincts that were both informed and complicated by the emergence. Deep purple live in concert 7273 2005, dvd discogs. Oct 16, 20 alvin purple being chased by a bevy of beauties through melbourne cbd. The alvin purple experience hellomama weer all crazy now dolans,limerick 4. Hard stuff complete purple records anthology 19711973.
Seen today it is hard to work out what the fuss was all about. Slapstick humour gave the film a kind of innocence that was popular with local audiences. Along with pacific banana, alvin purple is the film hes best known for. Shop oz ploitation volume 4 6dvd set alvin purple alvin rides again stork number 96 bmx bandits dark age the sex therapist tim burstalls alvin purple alvin rides again, and again. As an adult, alvin finds it hard to resist the advances of women. When released in 1973, alvin purple was highly controversial, both due to its subject matter and the frequent nudity and innuendo. Alvin purple rewatched the raunchy heart of 1970s ozploitation films. For those of us australians growing up in this era, director tim burstalls sleazy little gem features a veritable whos. Inside alvin purple tv movie 1973 cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. We staged a fire, cutting a multistory hospital in half, bursting from the laundry chute out onto one floor. Australian waterbed salesman alvin graeme blundell sees a psychiatrist penne hackforthjones about his irresistibility to women. Alvin purple being chased by a bevy of beauties through melbourne cbd. Alvin purple was australias most successful film at the time of its release.
Alvin is your average guy, except for the fact women find him irresistible and chase him everywhere. Graeme blundell, lynette curran, dennis miller, abigail, christine amor, dina mann, jill forster, frederick parslow, valerie blake, alan finney, tim burstall, alvin purple the sex therapist tim burstalls alvin purple, alvin purple, the sex therapist, tim burstalls alvin purple, tim burstall, graeme blundell, lynette curran, dennis miller. A controversial benchmark of australian cinema and a monumental part of the 70s ozploitation movement, alvin purple is tim burstalls petersen legendary film that introduced fullfrontal nudity. The character alvin, through the film and the ensuing television series, became an australian cultural icon and the name alvin purple. Alvin purple is a part series which was a spinoff of the 1973 movie of the same name. Alvin purple is a 1973 australian sex comedy film starring graeme blundell, written by alan. The title character of 1973s alvin purple is just your average unassuming man who wants to go about his simple business but has one huge problem. The plot of this film is that women are too horny for alvin purple and its ruining his life because hes too tired from all of the fucking. Despite this it was a major hit with australian audiences. This early 1970s australian film is a classic tale of sex and alienation and first real sex. Le film alvin purple 1973 vostfr admin 20170501t18.
Oct 23, 2014 average guy antihero alvin purple graeme blundell was at the heart of it, the floppyhaired centre round which all manner of carnal pleasures and perversities orbited. He finds refuge in the arms of mrs horwood jill forster, wife of his teacher. Alvin purple was released on dvd by umbrella entertainment in april 2011. Oscars best picture winners best picture winners golden globes emmys san diego comiccon new york comiccon sundance film festival toronto intl film festival awards central festival. There were alarming incidents of smokingrelated fires in their hospitals. Next, were going high rolling in a hot corvette, from 1977. Alvin purple 1973 clip 1 on aso australias audio and visual.
Its actually a film im proud to have made, and i made it for very little money, but im very pleased that i spent the. In 1972, tim burstall became a partner in a new film production company, hexagon. With abigail, shara berriman, graeme blundell, tim burstall. And the film was designed to have a whole series of lessons to be learned in a lecture afterwards. The brief for its first project was to make an australian decameron, and burstall chose alan hopgoods screenplay for alvin purple. Alvin purple is a 1973 australian comedy film starring graeme blundell, written by alan hopgood and directed by tim burstall. In a lengthy softfocus flashback sequence, we see that he had this problem as a schoolboy, with girls wanting him to help them with their homework. Oz ploitation volume 4 6dvd set alvin purple alvin. But there is more to alvin than meets the eye, and it is not long before he is thrust into a series of saucy adventures where women are attracted head over heels and find him sexually irresistible. Inside alvin purple tv movie 1973 release info imdb. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders.
A hilarious sex romp about alvin, an ordinary guy who works in a waterbed store in. This was followed by a 1976 australian broadcasting corporation situation comedy television series titled alvin purple. He tries to avoid them and get psychiatric help but gets used by the psychiatrists as a gigolo to treat other patients instead. The first film in this two disc package is the original alvin purple, released in 1973 and a huge financial success for the fledgling hexagon productions. This film was pulled from screening due to censorship concerns but was passed after some cuts had been made. Australian cinema broke through to the international market and, in the eyes of.
It made an unlikely star out of graeme blundell, and paved the way for a long series of australian films with sexual themes, or at least a lot of nudie exploitation flicks. It featured a woman in a bath full of cooked spaghetti i kid you not and alvin just. Sixteenyearold alvin purple graeme blundell is chased through the. Alvin purple is a nebbish waterbed salesman who stirs up an irrepressible sexual urge in women to such a degree that he gets mobbed by skirts wherever he goes. Voir alvin purple 1973 en streaming complet streamvoir. Alvin purple became the most commercially successful australian film released to that time, breaking the box office record set by michael powells. Eventually, he gets tapped by a charlatan doctor to play gigolo for hundreds of erotically frustrated housewives, under the guise of sex therapy until the law catches up with him. Petersen legendary film that introduced fullfrontal nudity to a mainstream audience and blazed a trail of outrageous rompinspired cinematic mayhem. Bolex dementia has now been enhanced with the very rare single, inside your life bw its how you do it the booklet includes an essay by classic rocks malcolm dome, based on new interviews with the bands john gustafson, and deep purples roger glover. Alvin purple was hugely popular, partly because it makes fun of powerful institutions like the courts, the press, marriage and psychiatry.
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