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1 36 form y separately published work icon The Sentimental Bloke Raymond Longford , Lottie Lyell , ( dir. Raymond Longford ) Canberra : ScreenSound Australia Australian Film Council , 2004 Z1046199 1919 single work film/TV humour (taught in 1 units)

Adapted by Raymond Longford and Lottie Lyell from C. J. Dennis's collection of poems (The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke), the story concerns Bill ('the bloke'), a Sydney larrikin who vows to abandon his life of gambling and drinking when he falls in love with Doreen (who works in a pickle factory). His reformation comes about after he has been released from gaol, having been convicted of assaulting a policeman ('stoushing a John') during a raid on a two-up game.

1 6 form y separately published work icon The Goddess of '67 Clara Law , Eddie Fong Ling-Ching , ( dir. Clara Law ) Australia : New South Wales Film and Television Office , 2001 Z1533896 2001 single work film/TV

The 'goddess' in this film refers to the Citroën DS (nicknamed 'Déesse'), a famous French car first produced in the fifties. The story concerns J. M., a young, well-to-do Japanese man who desires owning a Déesse. When one comes up for sale in Australia via the internet, J. M. travels there to buy it. Upon reaching his destination, however, he finds the seller and his wife dead and their house inhabited by a seventeen-year-old girl. He initially runs out in horror but returns in order to find out if the car is still there. He and the girl soon afterwards undertake a five-day drive into the outback. It also becomes 'a trip back in time into the early youth of the girl and into her family's chronicle'.

Source: IMDB.
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