Nickel Queen (1971)

Directed by

John McCallum

Genre

comedy film

Country

Australia

Runtime

1h 29m

Rating

9.0 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

The catalogue in 3D

The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.

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How it feels

An outback pub owner in Western Australia stakes a mining claim during a nickel boom. She becomes an overnight millionaire in this comedy of sudden wealth.

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What happens

Nickel Queen is a 1971 Australian comedy film starring Googie Withers and directed by her husband John McCallum. The story was loosely based on the Poseidon bubble, a nickel boom in Western Australia in the late 1960s, and tells of an outback pub owner who stakes a claim and finds herself an overnight millionaire. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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