They’re a Weird Mob

Michael Powell moves to Australia and makes a movie about a new arrival to Australia learning to adapt and assimilate into the Australian culture. Oh, but it’s about an Italian immigrant, not an English one, so it’s definitely not about him at all. Slight sarcasm aside, this is not a challenging film. It’s not even something one could call prototypically Powell-esque, or even Archers-esque even with Emeric Pressburger writing the screenplay under the pseudonym Richard Imrie, but it is a wond...