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 Town and Around: Auckland Highlights
 On The Mat
 Hang On A Minute Mate
 Beyond A Joke!
 Country Calendar - Spoofs Special
 Deer Wars

Synopsis

Author Barry Crump's iconic deer-hunter yarn A Good Keen Man (1960) captured Kiwi Boy's Own imaginations; it quickly sold 300,000 copies, and with Crump cast as an "ironic, laconic sort of super-bushman", it made him a successful, if unlikely, literary figure. This award-winning documentary chronicles Crump's colourful, controversial, life. The excerpts here look at Crump's emergence on the 50s literary scene; at fractured family relationships; and at the popular 80s TV ads for Toyota utes (with hapless mate Scotty in tow) that reignited his by-then "crusty" profile.

Credits (10)

 Michelle Bracey

Michelle Bracey
Director

 Philippa Mossman

Philippa Mossman
Producer

 Colin Hogg

Colin Hogg
Writer, Interviewer

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Comments (1)

 casey phillips

casey phillips

Posted at 06.55PM - 24.05.2011

barry crump is the best and i think that he is a hero

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 Greenstone Pictures

Greenstone Pictures

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Related Titles (10)

 Town and Around: Auckland Highlights

Town and Around: Auckland Highlights

Television, 1969 (Full Length)

Clip 3 features Barry Crump

 Beyond A Joke!

Beyond A Joke!

Television, 1995 (Full Length)

Crump features in this doco on NZ TV humour

 Country Calendar - Spoofs Special

Country Calendar - Spoofs Special

Television, 1999 (Full Length)

More backblocks humour

 Deer Wars

Deer Wars

Television, 2007 (Full Length)

A doco on helicopter deer-culling

 On The Mat

On The Mat

Television, 1975

Features more bushwackers

 Hang On A Minute Mate

Hang On A Minute Mate

Television, 1982 (Full Length)

A film based on Crump’s stories

 Country Calendar - Tim Wallis

Country Calendar - Tim Wallis

Television, 1987 (Full Length Episode)

Documentary about helicopter deer hunting and recovery

 The Good Word - Series Two, Episode Six

The Good Word - Series Two, Episode Six

Television, 2010 (Full Length)

Finlay Macdonald discusses Crump’s book ‘A Good Keen Man’

 The Billy T James Collection - Episode Four

The Billy T James Collection - Episode Four

Television, 1992 (Full Length Episode)

Barry Crump has a cameo in this Billy T Best Of

 Extraordinary Kiwis - Colin Meads

Extraordinary Kiwis - Colin Meads

Television, 2007 (Full Length Episode)

Another good keen man

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 NZ Book Month Collection

NZ Book Month Collection

Curated by NZ On Screen Team
Added 04 March 2011

Quotes

I had to stop him and tell him that he wasn't writing a police report ... the only people he'd talked to that'd had a typewriter in front of him before had been policemen. 

– Writer Kevin Ireland on coaching Crump prior to his publication in literary magazine Mate.

An ability to speak freshly and vividly and without cliche ... 

– A Good Keen Man editor Alex Fry on Crump's literary talent

We'll just have a wee breather here Scotty, we'll have to wait for the dog - he's lighter eh. 

– Barry to a petrified Scotty as they recover from a cliff jump a Toyota ute

Awards

1999 TV Guide New Zealand Television Awards
Best Factual Programme or Documentary Script (Colin Hogg)
Finalist Best Director