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The Overlanders

5.8 91 mins Western   Adventure   1946
Ealing Studios   J. Arthur Rank Organisation  
Director(s): Harry Watt

It's the start of WWII in Northern Australia. The Japanese are getting close. People are evacuating and burning everything in a "scorched earth" policy. Rather than kill all their cattle, a disparate group decides to drive them overland half way across the continent, from Wyndham in Western Australia through the Northern Territory outback of Australia to pastures north of Brisbane, Queensland.

Casts of The Overlanders

Chips Rafferty

as Dan McAlpine

John Nugent Hayward

as Bill Parsons

Daphne Campbell

as Mary Parsons

Jean Blue

as Mrs. Parsons

Helen Grieve

as Helen Parsons

John Fernside

as Corky

Peter Pagan

as Sailor

Frank Ransome

as Charlie

Stan Tolhurst

as Manager

Marshall Crosby

as Minister

Clyde Combo

as Aborigine Jacky

Henry Murdoch

as Aborigine Nipper

Steve Dodd

as Aborigine (uncredited)

John Fegan

as Police Sergeant

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