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Fatty Finn is a film of genre Comedy directed by Maurice Murphy released in USA on 18 december 1980 with Ben Oxenbould
Fatty Finn (1980)
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Add to a movie listFatty Finn is a 1980 Australian film, directed by Maurice Murphy and starring Ben Oxenbould with Rebecca Rigg. It is based on the 1930s cartoon-strip character, Fatty Finn, created by Syd Nicholls and is loosely based on the 1927 silent film, The Kid Stakes.
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Set in inner-city Woolloomooloo in Sydney, New South Wales in 1930, the neighbourhood nice guys are led by Fatty (real name Hubert Finn), an ambitious 10-year-old with an eye for making a quid. From shady frog jumping contests to a fixed goat race, Fatty uses his enterprise to raise enough money to buy a crystal set (radio without a separate power supply) that's worth seventeen shillings & sixpence (17/6), more than his Dad earns in a year. Bruiser Murphy the bully and his gang try to stop him. Fatty uses his brains against his enemies' brawn to eventually triumph.Actors
Ben Oxenbould
(Hubert 'Fatty' Finn)
Rebecca Rigg
(Tilly)
Martin Lewis
Bert Newton
(John Finn)
Robert Hughes
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