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Cooee! - a call used in the Australian bush to find one another.     Four films from Australian cinema of the  70's call out, each on their own way, to provide a fine cinematic experience at the Star and Shadow.   So get yer Whinging Pomey backsides down to see them cobber.

Films in the Cooee!:

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Film: The F J Holden (1976)

11 Dec 2011, 7:30 p.m.

Starring Paul Couzens and Carl Stever as Kev and Bob, two boozing - cruising rebellious youths who tour the suburbs of Sydney in a Holden looking for girls to pick up Jeez yer don't know what a Holden is ? Get yer whinging pom backsides onto a cinema seat and find out.

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Film: Mad Dog Morgan (1976)

14 Dec 2011, 7:30 p.m.

Dennis Hopper, Jack Thompson, David Gulpilil. Hopper is superb in character as the honest man turned into a notorious/heroic [depending on your social status] bushranger to survive in 1850s Australia, Unfortunately his career terminates with him supplying the material to make an "interesting tobacco pouch".

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Film: Monkey Grip (1983)

15 Dec 2011, 7:30 p.m.

Starring Noni Hazlehurst, Colin Friels. A single mother has an affair with a drug addict in desolate downtown Melbourne. This one'l get yer crying yer pommy eyes out.

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Film: Don's Party (1976)

18 Dec 2011, 7:30 p.m.

Starring Ray Barrett, Pat Bishop. A foul-mouthed comedy about a party in suburban australia that slips into total anarchy. Berlin Film Festival prize-winner F me Bruce! If it made the f Germans laugh it must be fair dinkum. Open another tinny and lets party

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