Eskimo Nell (1975)

Directed by

Martin Campbell

Genre

comedy film

Country

United Kingdom

Runtime

1h 25m

Rating

4.0 of 10 from 23 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This British comedy is about different people trying to make a movie based on a risqué folk song. It pokes fun at the British film industry and the process of making sexploitation films.

satiricalmetafarcewhimsicalplayfulbawdylighthearted

What happens

Eskimo Nell (also known as The Ballad of Eskimo Nell and The Sexy Saga of Naughty Nell and Big Dick), is a 1975 British satirical comedy film directed by Martin Campbell and starring Roy Kinnear, Anna Quayle, Katy Manning, and Christopher Timothy. It was produced by Stanley Long, who was mainly known for his sexploitation films. Though inspired by "The Ballad of Eskimo Nell", the film owes little to the original bawdy song and features little nudity, instead following a metafictional narrative about the various attempts to produce a movie based on "Eskimo Nell". Long called it "my definitive statement about the sex films", maintaining it was drawn from his own experiences working in the British film industry. Several characters in the film are based on real industry figures. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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