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Eliza
Fraser
(1973)
Eliza
Fraser is a 1976 bawdy
period farce set in the
early years of Australia
where the incompetent
captain of the brigantine
ship, Captain Fraser (Noel
Ferrier) sails his ship to
Moreton Bay prison where
his 2nd in command Captain
Rory McBride (English
actor John Castle)
disembarks wanting to
captain his own ship.
McBride is also carrying
on an affair with Captain
Fraser's wife Eliza
(English actress Susannah
York). At Moreton Bay
prison, now under the
command of the sadistic
Captain Foster Fyans (the
legendary Trevor Howard),
always enlists a snitch
and a bedboy at every
prison he run and the job
of bedboy goes to David
Bracefell (John Waters),
who decides to run off
naked instead of sharing
the bed with Fyans. He
ends up the bed of Eliza,
who at first mistakes him
for McBride, but instead
of turning him, she takes
pity on him and helps him
escape. The next day, the
Frasers leave Moreton Bay
and wouldn't you know it,
get shipwrecked in the
same spot the Captain did
4 years previous. A group
of Aborigines take in the
Frasers and for a while,
they live like Aborigines
until an Aboriginal elder
decides to marry Eliza and
she and the Captain
escape, with the help of
Bracefell who turns up in
the nick of time. Eliza
takes a shine to Bracefell
and want to escape to New
Zealand with him, away
from her husband, but
there one more thing they
hadn't counted on. The
return of McBride. From
the people behind Alvin
Purple and Petersen, Eliza
Fraser is a fun romp,
although not really a
funny romp, that would
have been one of the first
movie to have an extensive
look into the lives of
Aborigines. Eliza Fraser
was a real life person who
was notorious for spinning
tall tales and this is
definitely one tall tale.
And there's a requisite
nude cameo from Abigail,
an oft-used selling point
for movies in the 70s.
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