Kodak/Atlab Cinema Collection

Poster from 'Alvin Purple'

Alvin Purple (1973)

A new 35mm print of this feature and trailer are now available on request. Courtesy of Bilcock & Copping and Kodak (Australasia) and Atlab Australia

National Film and Sound Archive
Title Number 4.

Classification: R rating

Synopsis

The sex-comedy, Alvin Purple, is one of the seminal films of the 1970s. It was the most commercially successful of all Australian features released between 1971 and 1977. Stars Graeme Blundell as Alvin, the naive young male who finds himself the object of every woman's desires.

Director
Tim Burstall

Year of Production 1973
Duration 97 minutes
Format 35mm, (1:1,85) Colour
Optical Soundtrack Mono

Distributor
Roadshow

Production Company
Hexagon Productions

Producer
Tim Burstall

Screenplay
Alan Hopgood

Director of Photography
Robin Copping

Production Design
Leslie Binns

Editor
Edward McQueen - Mason

Sound Recordist
John Phillips

Music
Brian Cadd

Cast
Graeme Blundell (Alvin)
Christine Amor (Peggy)
Dina Mann (Shirley)
Dennis Miller (Mr Horwood)
Jill Forster (Mrs Horwood)
Kris McQuade (Samantha)
Penny Hackforth-Jones (Agnes Jackson)
Lynette Curren (1st sugar girlfriend)
Jacki Weaver (2nd sugar girl)
George Waley (Dr McBurney)