Eskimo Nell (film)
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
| Eskimo Nell | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Martin Campbell |
| Starring | Christopher Timothy Roy Kinnear Katy Manning Christopher Biggins Christopher Timothy Michael Armstrong |
| Release date(s) | 1975 |
| Country |  UK |
| Language | English |
| IMDb profile | |
Eskimo Nell, a.k.a. The Ballad of Eskimo Nell, is a 1975 UK film directed by Martin Campbell and produced by Stanley Long. Though inspired by "The Ballad of Eskimo Nell", the movie owes little to the original bawdy song.
In Campbell's film, a writer, a producer and a director are hired by a seedy erotic film producer Benny U. Murdoch, played by (Roy Kinnear), to make a dirty movie based on the poem. However, they run into difficulty when each of the production's backers want a completely different style of film made. Then Murdoch makes off with the money, and the three have to produce four different versions of the movie to keep everybody happy - a gay Western, a hardcore porno, a family version and a Kung Fu-style production.
[edit] References
X-Rated - Adventures of an Exploitation Filmmaker by Simon Sheridan (Reynolds & Hearn books) 2008
Keeping the British End Up: Four Decades of Saucy Cinema by Simon Sheridan (Reynolds & Hearn books) (third edition) 2007
[edit] External links
This article related to the cinema of the United Kingdom is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.
