Eskimo Nell

Eskimo Nell (1975)

Three young men, a scriptwriter, a producer and a director are called in by Benny U Murdoch, an exotic movie producer. He wants to make a new erotic movie starring a big woman - the "Eskimo Nell" of the title. However problems start from the beginning, the scriptwriter is a virgin, a lover of penguins and hasn't a clue on how to write an erotic movie, each of the three main backers want a different type of movie - a western, an erotic and a kung-fu movie with different people in the main part. However problems really start for the three when Benny runs off with all the money and they have to make three different versions of the same film and try not to let the backers and stars know what has happened. And this is made harder when there is a clean-up-filth society breathing down their necks....

Date of release
1975-01-17
TMDB
4.0 / 10 (25)
Runtime
1h 25m
Genres
Comedy
Director
Martin Campbell

Casting

Interesting facts

Eskimo Nell, is a 1975 British satirical comedy film directed by Martin Campbell and starring Roy Kinnear, Anna Quayle, Katy Manning, and Christopher Timothy. It was produced by Stanley Long, who was mainly known for his sexploitation films. Though inspired by "The Ballad of Eskimo Nell", the film owes little to the original bawdy song and features little nudity, instead following a metafictional narrative about the various attempts to produce a movie based on "Eskimo Nell".

Background

Many of the film's characters are based on real personalities of the time. Lady Longhorn and Lord Coltwind — the backers of the wholesome family version — are thinly veiled caricatures of Mary Whitehouse and Lord Longford. Benny U. Murdoch is loosely based on Tony Tenser, head of Tigon films. A more obscure figure the film ridicules is Louis "Deke" M.

Mary Millington has a small role in the film as a stripping traffic warden who auditions for a part in the film within a film. Although Millington appears only fleetingly (with her audition sped up for comic effect), stills from her scene were used to publicize the film in magazines including Titbits and Cinema X.

The film is not to be confused with Richard Franklin's 1975 film The True Story of Eskimo Nell which was released in the UK as Dick Down Under. Campbell's film was re-titled The Sexy Saga of Naughty Nell and Big Dick in Australia.

Long half financed with Barry Jacobs' Eagle films. Long had directed by then, but commissioned Martin Campbell write and direct. Long says the film is loosely based on fact and real people who were in the film industry.

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