Fatty Finn

Fatty Finn (1980)

The 10-year-old Hubert Finn, known as "Fatty", lived in poor conditions in Australia in the 1930s. He and his friends stick together as they often have to defend themselves against the villain Bomer and his gang. Fatty wants a detector radio, but can't afford it. He has to raise money for it within a week, otherwise he won't get the radio ...

Date of release
1980-12-18
TMDB
6.0 / 10 (9)
Runtime
1h 31m
Genres
Family, Comedy
Director
Maurice Murphy

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Box office: A$1.1M
  • Awards: 2 · Nominations: 5. Including: AACTA Award for Best Costume Design; AACTA Award for Best Original Music Score

Fatty Finn is a 1980 Australian film, directed by Maurice Murphy and starring Ben Oxenbould with Rebecca Rigg. It is based on the 1930s cartoon-strip character, Fatty Finn, created by Syd Nicholls and is loosely based on the 1927 silent film, The Kid Stakes.

Production

Screenwriter Bob Ellis says it was his idea to make the film. He complained about interference from the film's producers, John Sexton and Yoram Gross, claiming Sexton in particular wanted a lot of changes, but changed his mind after David Puttnam praised Ellis's original draft. He later said of the film that "all the performances are dreadful, the conspicuous exception being Bert Newton's."

Of the $350,000 budget, $120,000 came from the Australian Film Commission.

The movie was set in Woolloomooloo but the area had changed a lot since then so was shot in and around Glebe. Filming took place in January and February 1980.

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