Nickel Queen

Nickel Queen

1971 · 89 min · ★ 9.0 · Comedy

Nickel Queen was an Australian comedy film released in 1971 starring Googie Withers and directed by her husband John McCallum. The story was loosely based on the Poseidon bubble, a nickel boom in Western Australia in the late 1960s, and tells of an outback pub owner who stakes a claim and finds herself an overnight millionaire.

Directed by John McCallum · Written by Joy Cavill

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