Starstruck

Clip 2: ‘We want a song’

2 min 50 sec

Taken from the feature Starstruck (1982)

Original title classification MA – this clip chosen to be G

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Curator’s clip description

Jackie (Jo Kennedy) returns home as a celebrity, having made the news as a tightrope walker, in a stunt set up by her cousin Angus (Ross O’Donovan). She entertains the bar at the Harbour View Hotel with a song, accompanied by her new friends, a band called The Wombats. Their smitten guitarist Robbie (Ned Lander) dances on the bar with her.

Curator’s notes

Note the Sydney Harbour Bridge iconography in the pub decor. This song was one of the most popular on the soundtrack. The Harbour View Hotel was a real Sydney pub, and remains so in a spectacular location in The Rocks.

Paul Byrnes, curator

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