◎片 名 Eliza Fraser (1976)
◎中文 名 暂无
◎年 代 1976
◎国 家 澳大利亚
◎类 别 剧情/冒险
◎语 言 英语
◎字 幕 无字幕
◎IMDB评分 5.4/10 (25 votes)
◎IMDB链接 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074466/
◎文件格式 XviD + AC3
◎视频尺寸 640x352
◎文件大小 2CD 2 x 50 x 15MB
◎片 长 112 minutes
◎导 演 Tim Burstall
◎主 演 Susannah York .... Eliza Fraser
Trevor Howard .... Capt. Foster Fyans
Noel Ferrier .... Captain James Fraser
John Castle .... Captain Rory McBride
John Waters .... David Bracefell
Abigail .... Buxom Girl
Gerard Kennedy .... Martin Cameron
Arna-Maria Winchester .... Mrs. Cameron
Charles 'Bud' Tingwell .... Duncan Fraser
Gus Mercurio .... Darge
Lindsey Roughsey .... Euenmundi
George Mallaby .... Lt. Otter
Carole Skinner .... Mrs. Shortland
Vicki Bray .... Mrs. Annie Fraser
Martin Harris .... Graham
◎简 介
1837. Eliza Fraser (Susannah York) is the vivacious wife of a much older Scottish sea captain (Noel Ferrier). They are shipwrecked off the Great Barrier Reef and are captured by the local Aborigines. Meanwhile, the crew of the ship descend into savagery.
This much is a true story, as Eliza Fraser was a real person. How much of it is true no-one will ever know, as the real Eliza – who earned her living telling her story at carnivals – clearly didn’t let facts get in the way of good stories. David Williamson’s script does the same thing, taking a few liberties with history on the way. At around the same time this film was made, Australia’s leading novelist Patrick White (winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1973) wrote his own fictionalised version of Eliza’s story in A Fringe of Leaves, not to my mind one of his greatest novels.
Eliza Fraser (sometimes known as The Adventures of Eliza Fraser) is a curious film. It’s certainly not the serious and reverential take on Australian history that apparently some critics expected. Williamson and Tim Burstall use Eliza’s story as the basis of a bawdy historical romp, rather along the lines of Tom Jones. The film mixes genres with abandon, beginning as bedroom farce – there’s a scene where Eliza receives a visit from her husband while one lover is hiding under the bed and another in a cupboard – but adds moments of drama and grim realism, particularly in the scenes of the sailors killing and eating each other to survive. It’s done with a lot of gusto, though. Susannah York looks stunning and seems to be enjoying herself enormously. John Castle and John Waters are fine as the main hunks in her love life, and Noel Ferrier plays the pompous, cuckolded Captain Fraser with an impregnable dignity that never wavers even when he’s among Aborigines and wearing virtually nothing. Trevor Howard makes the most of a smallish role as a gay army captain and commander of a convict settlement who tries to get Waters’s character into bed. Leslie Binns’s production design and Robin Copping’s camerawork are first rate too, though it’s odd to see a historical epic that isn’t shot in Scope.
Eliza Fraser was an expensive film to make, being a period piece with three imported lead actors. Hexagon coproduced it with the Australian Film Commission. It cost A$1,200,000, becoming the first Australian film with a seven-figure budget. As so often with Tim Burstall’s films, the critics sniffed at it, but the public flocked to it…but not enough of them for the film to break even. I can’t trace a British cinema release, though according to the BBFC it did appear on video in 1987 under the title Intrigue.
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VIDEO RESOLUTION: [X] 640x352 THEATRE DATE.: 1976.12.16
