The Adventures Of Barry McKenzie Details

A scrappy but often hilarious screen version of Private Eye's comic strip, with Barry Crocker visiting some of England's grottiest highways and dirtiest byways, in the company of his aunt, Edna Everage. That's right, possums, this is an early screen outing for Barry Humphries's batty alter ego, offending pommies left, right and centre, and even flashing Joan Bakewell on a late-night TV show. Words and phrases like “chunder” and “tubes of beer” entered the English language and a lot of it, frankly, is disgusting. And to think that director Bruce Beresford went on to make Driving Miss Daisy.

Unappealing spinoff from the Private Eye comic strip, chronicling the adventures, with and without his Aunt Edna, of a... read more on Time Out