Funny Things Happen Down Under
Suitable for general audiences 1965 1h 26m Film
- Music
- Children
- Musical
Rainbow-coloured goats and a herd of children on horseback feature in this 1965 Australian movie. Expat Kiwi producer Roger Mirams called on a stable of actors from his TV work for this part-musical romp, about a group of youngsters who discover a way to change the colour of animal wool. The cast includes Grease's Olivia Newton-John (in her screen debut) and Howard Morrison (as a shearer who teaches the kids a Māori stick game). After co-founding Kiwi production company Pacific Films, Mirams had left Aotearoa in 1957 to launch a short-lived Australian arm of Pacific.
Key Cast & Crew
VM
Vern Moore
Musical Arranger
ONJ
Olivia Newton-John
As: One of the gang









