Came A Hot Friday
NZ comedy classic with genius Billy T. James, directed by Ian Mune.
1949 New Zealand. Wes (Bland) and his sidekick Cyril (Gordon) are conmen scamming small-town bookies. They arrive in Tainui and get to work with the help of gullible local, Don (Lawrence). They make some money, more by luck than good judgement, but when Wes wins a large amount gambling at the villainous Sel Bishop's (Napier) illicit casino, Sel avoids paying up. Wes and company join forces with the bizarre 'Mexican' bandit, the Tainui Kid (James), and set out to get the deserved winnings.
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The New York Times
pressIt strives to be nothing more than it set out to be, and achieves this with a good-humored sense of almost laughing at itself.
Awesome film some of it filmed about 10 minutes up the road from us in Eltham Taranaki you can go and visit the places where they filmed .Good movie not great but another Nz classic to have in the dvd collection along with Good bye pork pie,Quiet Earth with Bruno Laurence,Smash palace Nz can make damm good films on really low budgets I love althings Billy T...
Starting 20 July 2011, a PAL R0 will become available from New Zealand sources. Screenline of Auckland is taking pre-orders now. Charles nzvideos.org
I was told a couple of days ago by an obscure video shop owner that the rights were sold to an overseas distributor and has since gone bankrupt ∴ no DVD.
According to NZVideos.org website: March 3, 2008 - NOTE: Regarding dvd copies - The distributor has stated that a new re-pressing is in the works, but no exact date as yet. Email the site owner if you want to be notified when the disks become available.
The New York Times
pressIt strives to be nothing more than it set out to be, and achieves this with a good-humored sense of almost laughing at itself.
Awesome film some of it filmed about 10 minutes up the road from us in Eltham Taranaki you can go and visit the places where they filmed .Good movie not great but another Nz classic to have in the dvd collection along with Good bye pork pie,Quiet Earth with Bruno Laurence,Smash palace Nz can make damm good films on really low budgets I love althings Billy...
Starting 20 July 2011, a PAL R0 will become available from New Zealand sources. Screenline of Auckland is taking pre-orders now. Charles nzvideos.org
I was told a couple of days ago by an obscure video shop owner that the rights were sold to an overseas distributor and has since gone bankrupt ∴ no DVD.
According to NZVideos.org website: March 3, 2008 - NOTE: Regarding dvd copies - The distributor has stated that a new re-pressing is in the works, but no exact date as yet. Email the site owner if you want to be notified when the disks become available.
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