Fatty Finn (film)

Fatty Finn
Directed byMaurice Murphy
Written byBob Ellis
Produced byBrian Rosen
StarringBen Oxenbould
Rebecca Rigg
Jeremy Larsson
Martin Lewis
Music byGrahame Bond
Rory O'Donoghue
Production
companies
Childrens Film Corporation
Australian Film Commission
Finn Productions
Distributed byHoyts
Release date
  • 18 December 1980 (1980-12-18)
Running time
91 minutes
CountryAustralia
LanguageEnglish
Budget$350,000[1]
Box office$1,064,000 (Australia)[2]

Fatty Finn is a 1980 Australian film, directed by Maurice Murphy and starring Ben Oxenbould with Rebecca Rigg. It is based on the 1930s cartoon-strip character, Fatty Finn, created by Syd Nicholls and is loosely based on the 1927 silent film, The Kid Stakes.

  1. ^ "Bert Newton makes his big-screen debut 'Fatty Finn'". Australian Women's Weekly. National Library of Australia. 19 March 1980. p. 46. Retrieved 3 August 2012.
  2. ^ "Australian Films at the Australian Box Office", Film Victoria Archived 9 February 2014 at the Wayback Machine accessed 24 October 2012