All at Sea (1977 film)
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Director Igor Auzins Duration | 4.6/10 Language English Country Australia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Production companies Reg Grundy Organisation Release date 1977 Writer Howard Leeds (story), Hugh Stuckey Cast Abigail , Stuart Wagstaff , Ugly Dave Gray , Barry Creyton , Noel Ferrier Related Igor Auzins movies |
All at Sea is a 1977 Australian television film about a group of misfits on holiday on an island resort. It used the cast from The Celebrity Game.
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Production
The film was a rare comedy from the Grundy Organisation. Reg Grundy claimed he was the one who had the idea of making an Australian TV movie in the vein of the Carry On films featuring the most popular comics in the country. He pitched the idea to Ian Holmes at Channel Ten who agreed to finance it. Grundy's wife Joy Chambers was then a panelist on The Celebrity Game on Channel Ten, and she also appeared in the cast.
Grundy assigned producing duties to Howard Leeds who had recently joined Grundys from Hollywood. "So here I had an American producing a show that was based entirely on English comedy with mostly Australian actors", Grundy later wrote. "It was a mishmash."
Reception
Grundy wrote in his 2010 memoirs that the movie "got a twenty-one rating which these days would be a hit but back then was just okay. Howard [Leeds] had struck out." No TV station wanted to pick it up and turn it into a series.
References
All at Sea (1977 film) WikipediaAll at Sea (1977 film) IMDb All at Sea (1977 film) themoviedb.org