![]() ![]() Main article: Summer of the Seventeenth Doll Roo then returns to the bar where Olive is working, and the pair are shown laughing together as Roo drinks his beer. Roo leaves, and we see him next saying farewell to Barney and the other cane cutters, along with Bubba, as they board the train for Queensland. Roo proposes to Olive, who is devastated by this, refusing his proposal and demanding that Roo return their lives to the way they were. We learn that Dowd has proposed to Bubba, and she now intends to go with him to Queensland. Roo has had a bad season, losing his place as head of the cane cutting team to a younger man, Dowd.īarney tries to smooth things over between Roo and Dowd, who falls for Bubba, a girl who has grown up with the cane cutters. In the seventeenth year, Barney arrives to find that Nancy has married however Olive has arranged a replacement, manicurist Pearl. ![]() For sixteen years Roo has spent the summer with barmaid Olive, bringing her a kewpie doll, while Barney romances Nancy. ![]() Queensland sugarcane cutters Roo and Barney spend the off season in Sydney each year, seeing their girlfriends. In the United States the film was released under the title Season of Passion. ![]() Summer of the Seventeenth Doll is a 1959 Australian-British film directed by Leslie Norman and is based on the Ray Lawler play Summer of the Seventeenth Doll. ![]()
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