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form y separately published work icon The Kid Stakes single work   film/TV  
Note: Based on Syd Nicholls' comic strip character Fatty Finn.
Issue Details: First known date: 1927... 1927 The Kid Stakes
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Text Unit Name Institution Year
form y separately published work icon The Kid Stakes Tal Ordell , ( dir. Tal Ordell ) Australia : Ordell-Coyle Productions , 1927 Z1619164 1927 single work film/TV (taught in 1 units)

Fatty Finn is the scruffy six-year-old leader of a gang of kids in the dockside suburb of Woolloomooloo in Sydney. When Fatty enters his pet goat Hector in a local goat race, his rival Bruiser Murphy does his best to make sure that Hector won't win. He manages to let Hector loose in the grounds of a Potts Point mansion, where he eats a large portion of the prize garden. The owner locks the goat up, so Fatty and his gang sign an oath in blood to bust Hector out. With no time to get to the races, Fatty persuades a friendly aviator to fly Hector to the race track . After arriving just in time, Hector wins his heat and lines up against the other finalists, including Bruiser Murphy's goat Stonker.

[Source: Australian Screen]

Australian Film King's College London 2009
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