Dir: Bob Ellis | Cast: Norman Kaye, Wendy Hughes | Australia, Drama 91’
This Australian drama starts deceptively quietly as music teacher Wendy Hughes quietly picks up an unassuming little salesman played by Norman Kaye, which proves something of a red herring as Kaye is never seen again.
What then follows resembles ‘Looking for Mr Goodbar’ as Miss Hughes resumes her travels and turns into a regular chameleon, her appearance transformed as she adapts to every new man.
The most extraordinary development comes when she is enlisted in a conspiracy to assassinate a conservative politician whose eye she catches by vigorously joining in a performance he’s giving of ‘The Internationale’, which ironically enlists your sympathy for the intended victim since few real conservatives would have the wit to declare “I hate the sentiment – as you know – but I love the tune!” @RichardChatten