They're a Weird Mob is a popular 1957 Australian comic novel written by John O'Grady under the pen name "Nino Culotta," the name of the main character of the book. The book sold 130 000 copies in its first year of publication. It is also the name of the 1966 film based on the book, which was one of the last collaborations of the British filmmakers Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger. The film stars Walter Chiari, Chips Rafferty and Clare Dunne....
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They're a Weird Mob is a popular 1957 Australian comic novel written by John O'Grady under the pen name "Nino Culotta," the name of the main character of the book. The book sold 130 000 copies in its first year of publication. It is also the name of the 1966 film based on the book, which was one of the last collaborations of the British filmmakers Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger. The film stars Walter Chiari, Chips Rafferty and Clare Dunne.
Giovanni 'Nino' Culotta is an Italian immigrant, who comes to Australia as a journalist, employed by an Italian publishing house, to write articles about Australians and their way of life for those Italians that might want to emigrate to Australia.
In order to learn about real Australians, Nino takes a job as a brickie's labourer (a labourer to a bricklayer) with a man named Joe Kennedy. The comedy of the novel revolves around his attempts to understand English as it was spoken in Australia, by the working classes, in the 1950s and 1960s ...
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