Squeeze a Flower

Squeeze a Flower (1970)

When greed threatens the livelihood of an Italian monastery, a monk flees with the formula for their special liquor.

Date of release
1970-02-12
TMDB
8.0 / 10 (1)
Runtime
1h 42m
Genres
Comedy
Director
Marc Daniels

Casting

Interesting facts

Squeeze a Flower is a 1970 Australian comedy film directed by Marc Daniels and starring Walter Chiari.

Production

The film was meant to be the first in a proposed series of ten films made jointly by NLT Productions and Group W. NLT Productions was a television production company in Sydney and was supported by Motion Picture Investments, a company associated with various Australian businessmen including Reg Ansett. Group W was a division of the American Westinghouse Broadcasting Company.

Leading cast and crew were imported: the director, writer and producer were all American and the lead actors were from overseas: Italian Walter Chiari, American Jack Albertson and Irish David Allen. It was Allen's first major film role.

Filming began in mid February 1969 and only took a month. Shooting took place in the studio of Ajax Films in Sydney and on location in St Patrick's College, Manly, and Mount Pleasant vineyard in the Hunter Valley.

Walter Chiari had previously made They're a Weird Mob (1966) in Australia. He married his girlfriend during the shoot.

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