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
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.
lightheartedwhimsicalupbeatwrysatiricalbreezyquirky
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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