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Anna (Jacki Weaver) takes her new housemate Stork (Bruce Spence) to Monash University, where she helps him look in the newspaper for a job. Stork has reveries about storming the Supreme Court as a revolutionary for the workers, or being stranded in the Antarctic ‘with no moles’ (his generic term for all women). Neither appeals to him, so they give up job-hunting.
Curator’s notes
A definite influence here is The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, an American comedy from 1947 in which Danny Kaye daydreams adventures for himself. Stork’s daydreams are a bit more like nightmares, but they indicate how active his imagination is. The Antarctic dream is a reference to the legend of Lawrence Oates, who sacrificed his life for his comrades in Robert Scott’s doomed South Pole expedition in 1912, with the words, ‘I am just going outside and may be some time’. He was never seen again.
