The second film to emerge from Michael Powell's Australian exile - and his last for a mainstream audience - still remains relatively obscure, and those introduced to it are usually surprised and delighted to discover that such a record exists of a young Helen Mirren romping starkers on the Great Barrier Reef.
She herself disliked working working with Powell because he shouted a lot and was shocked at how enormous her backside looked on the big screen. Still awe-inspiring at 75, over half a century ago she even then looked more like a thirty year-old pretending to be a naive young teenager than a young woman in her early twenties.
She herself disliked working working with Powell because he shouted a lot and was shocked at how enormous her backside looked on the big screen. Still awe-inspiring at 75, over half a century ago she even then looked more like a thirty year-old pretending to be a naive young teenager than a young woman in her early twenties.