| 词条 | Squeeze a Flower |
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| name = Squeeze a Flower | image = | image size = | alt = | caption = | director = Marc Daniels | producer = George Willoughby[1] | writer = Charles Isaacs Script Reconstruction: Walter Black | narrator = | starring = Walter Chiari Jack Albertson Dave Allen Rowena Wallace Alec Kellaway Kirrily Nolan Michael Laurence Alan Tobin Jeff Ashby Bobby Limb Dawn Lake Barry Crocker | music = Tommy Leonetti | cinematography = Brian West | editing = Stanley Moore | studio = Group W Films NLT Productions | distributor = British Empire Films | released = 13 February 1970 | runtime = 102 minutes | country = Australia United States | language = English | budget = $750,000[2] | gross = }} Squeeze a Flower is a 1970 Australian comedy film directed by Marc Daniels and starring Walter Chiari. PlotBrother George is the only monk at the Italian Monastery who knows the secret recipe of the popular liqueur that is the sole source of income for the monastery. When he feels their sole distributor, a local wine merchant, isn't giving the monastery a fair price, he leaves and moves to Australia. There he works at a vineyard picking grapes and starts making the liqueur in his spare time. George then comes to the attention of the winery owner Alfredo Brazzi and the two agree to a partnership to make the liqueur. Alfredo is unaware George is a monk and that he sends 50 percent of the money back to his Italian monastery. Alfredo and his son-in-law Tim constantly try to steal the secret recipe. They recruit June for their skulduggery, but she falls in love with George, also unaware of his religious calling. Finally, the Italian wine merchant travels to Sydney, willing to make a deal with Brother George. The merchant ends up paying double the price he had previously rejected.[3] Cast
ProductionThe film was meant to be the first in a proposed series of ten films made jointly by NLT Productions and Group W. NLT Productions was a television production company in Sydney and was supported by Motion Picture Investments, a company associated with various Australian businessmen including Sir Reginald Ansett.[4] Group W was a division of the American Westinghouse Broadcasting Company.[2] Leading cast and crew were imported: the director, writer and producer were all American and the lead actors were from overseas: Italian Walter Chiari, American Jack Albertson and Irish David Allen. It was Allen's first major film role.[5] Filming began in mid February 1969 and only took a month. Shooting took place in the studio of Ajax Films in Sydney and on location in St Patrick's College, Manly, and Mount Pleasant vineyard in the Hunter Valley.[2][6] Walter Chiari had previously made They're a Weird Mob (1966) in Australia. He married his girlfriend during the shoot.[7] ReleaseThe film's premiere in Sydney was attended by Australian Prime Minister John Gorton but the movie was not well received, commercially or critically.[2] References1. ^{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article107071165 |title=Foreign actors for Australian film. |newspaper=The Canberra Times |date=3 January 1969 |accessdate=10 December 2013 |page=10 |publisher=National Library of Australia}} 2. ^1 2 3 Andrew Pike and Ross Cooper, Australian Film 1900–1977: A Guide to Feature Film Production, Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1998, 246 3. ^{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article46080499 |title=Italian monk with a secret liqueur recipe. |newspaper=The Australian Women's Weekly | date=18 February 1970 |accessdate=3 September 2012 |page=26 |publisher=National Library of Australia}} 4. ^{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article107091561 |title=Mr ANSETT ON BOARD. |newspaper=The Canberra Times |date=13 March 1969 |accessdate=10 December 2013 |page=3 |publisher=National Library of Australia}} 5. ^{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article107079058 |title=Comedian returns. |newspaper=The Canberra Times |date=18 February 1969 |accessdate=10 December 2013 |page=3 |publisher=National Library of Australia}} 6. ^{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article44025920 |title="SQUEEZE A FLOWER". |newspaper=The Australian Women's Weekly | date=21 May 1969 |accessdate=11 September 2012 |page=17 |publisher=National Library of Australia}} 7. ^{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article46932169 |title=Happiness is a man called Walter Chiari. |newspaper=The Australian Women's Weekly | date=2 April 1969 |accessdate=11 September 2012 |page=3 |publisher=National Library of Australia}} External links
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