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A Local Boy (1964)

A Local Boy poster
Directed by
Henri Safran
Country
Australia
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A boy from a small town adjusts to life in the city. The film is a TV play from the 1960s about a local young man.

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What happens

A Local Boy is a 1964 Australian TV play produced in ABC's Gore Hill Studios in Sydney. Australian TV drama was relatively rare at the time. The play featured, reportedly, the first near-nude scene on Australian television. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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