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Nickel Queen is a 1971 Australian comedy film starring Googie Withers and directed by her husband John McCallum. The story was loosely based on the Poseidon bubble, a nickel boom in Western Australia in the late 1960s, and tells of an outback pub owner who stakes a claim and finds herself an overnight millionaire.
8. Juni 2012 · recorded from Channel Nine (Australia) onto VHS tape.http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0125948/
- 84 Min.
- 8,7K
- Hillard Elkins
12. Aug. 2021 · At the height of her fame, on the back of the 1969 nickel boom Millie Phillips was branded as “the Nickel Queen” and lionised as the epitome of a “woman in a man’s world”. She was the first woman in Australian history to acquire mineral exploration areas and to float and chair public companies.
1. Apr. 1971 · Nickel Queen: Directed by John McCallum. With Googie Withers, John Laws, Alfred Sandor, Ed Devereaux. An outback pub owner stakes a claim and finds herself an overnight millionaire.
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- Comedy
- John McCallum
- 1971-04-01
Nickel Queen. 1971. Feature | 89mins | Completed. When rumours abound that nickel has been found near a small desert town in Western Australia, Meg Blake stakes the first claim. With the help of a crooked American mining executive she soars to social prominence in Perth.
Acting on a rumour, Meg Blake (Googie Withers) – the wily widowed owner of the local pub at Mirribilli in Western Australia – pegs out a mining claim in the middle of a piece of land on nearby Spinifex Hill that a large corporation named Benson Mining plans to claim to mine nickel.
Nickel Queen was an Australian comedy film released in 1971 starring Googie Withers and directed by her husband John McCallum. The story was loosely based on the Poseidon bubble, a nickel boom in Western Australia in the late 1960s, and tells of an outback pub owner who stakes a claim and finds herself an overnight millionaire.
