Something of a "Carry on, Soldier" for the Aussie set, the hour-long 1931 feature Diggers (the first film produced for the Efftee Studios production company) is a rollicking comedy adapted from the popular Australian stage show of the same title, and helmed by Oz's infamous director-cum-actor Frank W. Thring. The film stars comedy team Pat Hanna and George Moon as a pair of mischievous "diggers" (or soldiers in the Australian army) who repeatedly stir up mirth while serving in the AIF in France circa 1918. In the first segment, Hanna and Moon attempt to lift some rum from a Brit Army surplus store. In the second, Hanna and Moon sit at a French café while another digger courts a waitress. And in the third, Hanna and Moon fake illness to escape from the horrors of battle, and wind up in a hospital, where they (according to the film's posters) "flirt with the pretty nursies." ~ Nathan Southern, All Movie Guide
Diggers is a coming-of-age movie directed by Katherine Dieckmann. It portrays four working-class friends who grow up in The Hamptons, on the South Shore of Long Island, New York, as clam diggers in 1976. Their fathers were clam diggers as well as their grandfathers before them. They must cope with and learn to face the changing times in both their personal lives and their neighborhood.
The movie was written by actor Ken Marino, who also stars.
Release
Diggers was released on April 27, 2007 and premiered on HDNet on April 27, and was released on DVD on May 1. It was released much in the same way as the 2005 film Bubble.
