Plugg is a 1975 Australian sex comedy about a private investigator.Plugg at National Film and Sound Archive
Plot Private detective Plugg is hired to watch a suspect escort agency. Inspector Closer comes after Plugg.
Cast Peter Thompson as Horatio Plugg Norman Yemm as Inspector Closer Cheryl Rixon as Kelli Kelly Reg Gorman as Constable Hector Raymond Joseph Fürst as Judge Fraudenheist Alan Cassell as Herman Cavanagh
Production The film was shot in Perth.Andrew Pike and Ross Cooper, Australian Film 1900–1977: A Guide to Feature Film Production, Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1998, p 293
Reception Box office The film had a brief run in cinemas. However Tim Burstall in The Bulletin called the film's commercial fate a "total disaster".
Critical The Age wrote "laboured 'dirty' jokes, inane pratfalls, mistimed gags... it is all unbelievably juvenile and makes Alvin Purple look like Buster Keaton."
David Stratton called the film "cheap and amateurish".David Stratton, The Last New Wave: The Australian Film Revival, Angus & Robertson, 1980 p264
Brian McFarlane called it "possibly the worst Australian film ever made... astonishingly inept."
Home media
DVD & streaming releases Title Format Ep # Discs Release date Special features Distributors Plugg DVD Film 01 2 January 2019 Theatrical Trailer (accessible at the end of the Feature) Umbrella Entertainment Plugg Umbrella Streaming Film - 2 January 2019 None Umbrella Entertainment
References
External links Plugg at IMDb Plugg at Screen Australia Plugg at Letterbox DVD Plugg at Oz Movies