The Great MacArthy

1975
1h 46min

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Ajouter une intrigue dans votre langueMacarthy is a country football player who is kidnapped by the South Melbourne Football Club and made a star player in the city.Macarthy is a country football player who is kidnapped by the South Melbourne Football Club and made a star player in the city.Macarthy is a country football player who is kidnapped by the South Melbourne Football Club and made a star player in the city.

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- 2 victoires au total

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Anecdotes
Most of the game scenes and training scenes are shot at the South Melbourne ground (no longer used for football). Scenes from the last game and the crowd scenes prior to this are shot at the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG), the spiritual home of Australian Rules Football. The MCG was also the site of the 1956 Olympic Games and the 2006 Commonwealth Games, and is also the location of Test cricket in Melbourne.

Gaffes
During the match against Richmond, the commentator gives the score as South Melbourne 8 5 53 to Richmond 13 13 91. In the next shot, the scoreboard shows the score as South Melbourne 9 11 65 to Richmond 17 6 108.

Citations
Nurse: [to Macarthy] Looking for someone Mr. Macarthy?

Connexions
Featured in On the Bench with the Great MacArthy (2004)

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3/10

An obnoxious mess.... with one exception

It's been surprising how few sports-related films have been made in Australia considering how obsessed the country is about sport and how it's treated as a major factor in the national mindset.

Therefore it's particularly disappointing that this film about the indigenous sport of Aussie Rules football - centred around country footballer McCarthy kidnapped to play in the big city league - is such a dud. You know it's in trouble in the pre-credits sequence which is full of mindless, inane activity and bad mugging by the actors, resulting in zero entertainment value.

And it never really recovers. The main culprit is the frenetic, tiresome direction by David Baker which never allows anything of promise to develop. And for all the 'anything goes' attitude the film is desperate to portray, the plot is relentlessly obvious and predictable.

One aspect does survive though - the central romance between McCarthy and a teacher played by Judy Morris is quite sweet and even moving at times. Credit for this goes to Morris' genuine and affecting performance, especially impressive in the context of the caricatured hysteria from most of the cast.