{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2015}} {{Use Australian English|date=July 2015}} {{Infobox film | name = She'll Be Sweet | image = | caption = | director = Gene Levitt | producer = Geoffrey Daniels | writer = Colin Free | based_on = | starring = Tony Lo Bianco<br>Sally Kellerman<br>Anne Semler<br>Rod Mullinar | music = Kevin Johnson<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article126852573 |title=The best years have been good years |newspaper=The Canberra Times |location=Australian Capital Territory, Australia |date=19 October 1981 |access-date=10 January 2020 |page=3 |via=Trove }}</ref> | cinematography = | editing = | distributor = ABC | studio = Transatlantic Enterprises | released = {{Film date|1978}} | runtime = 92 mins | country = Australia | language = English | budget = }} '''''She'll Be Sweet''''' is a 1978 Australian television film.<ref>At the Movies: Bertolucci brings Liv Ullmann to Brooklyn. Flatley, Guy. New York Times ]25 Nov 1977: 71</ref>

The film was also known as ''Magee and the Lady''.<ref name="scott">Ed. Scott Murray, ''Australia on the Small Screen 1970-1995'', Oxford Uni Press, 1996 p140</ref> It was the sixth and last television film made by the ABC in association with Transatlantic Enterprises.

==Plot== Captain Magee is a sailor whose boat is bought from under him by a millionaire tycoon. He tries to find the tycoon with the help of the tycoon's daughter.

==Cast== *Tony Lo Bianco *Sally Kellerman *Anne Semler *Rod Mullinar

==Production== Filming started in Sydney on 31 October 1977.<ref>[https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1301&dat=19771023&id=grdjAAAAIBAJ&sjid=fuYDAAAAIBAJ&pg=1495,7562872 Don Groves, "Hot Lips to Star in ABC Movie", ''The Sydney Morning Herald'' 23 October 1977] accessed 15 July 2013</ref>

==Reception== The ''Sydney Morning Herald'' wrote that "Colin Free's script is indeed clever. He has given Lo Bianco and Kellerman some of the funniest banter heard in a long time."<ref>{{cite news|newspaper=Sydney Morning Herald|title=January 8, 1979 A hilarious dig at the polo set in new telemovie|page=14}}</ref> Another critic in the same paper called it "the last (one fervently hopes) of its disastrous Pelexmovies...in this travesty of a B-rated western, an improbable script saw the improbable hero and heroine (both American let it be noted not Australian) simulating The Perils and Pauline in an improbable Hunter Valley."<ref>{{cite news|first=Clement|last=Semmler|newspaper=Sydney Morning Herald|title=Need for decent Aust dramas|date=January 31, 1979 |page=8}}</ref>

Another review in the same paper said " plot is improbable and unconvincing... The movie's tacit acceptance of his immorality is distasteful. Then we're asked to believe the scruffy seafarer and his shrewish captive fall irresistibly and dfreamily in love. As Bob Hawke might say, "Balderdash"."<ref>{{cite news|first=Don|last=Groves|newspaper=Sydney Morning Herald|date=7 January 1979|page=55|title=Sight n Sound}}</ref>

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==External links== *[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093472/ ''She'll Be Sweet''] at IMDb

Category:Australian television films Category:Sea adventure films Category:Seafaring films Category:Films directed by Gene Levitt

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