The Overlanders
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.
- Rated
- Approved
- Runtime
- 1h 31m
- Released
- 1946
- Country
- United Kingdom, Australia
Details
Release year: 1946
Storyline
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.
Top credits
Chips Rafferty ā Dan McAlpine- John Nugent Hayward ā Bill Parsons
- Daphne Campbell ā Mary Parsons
- Jean Blue ā Mrs. Parsons
Did you know
ā¢ The characters begin their journey evacuating from the town of Wyndham in Western Australia, which was bombed by the Japanese during World War Two. Eight Japanese fighters hit Wyndham on 3 March, 1942. This was two weeks after the first attack on Darwin and simultaneous to the first attack on Broome, which were the deadliest and second deadliest air raids in Australia of the whole war and provoked panic across northern Australia.
ā¢ The opening narration lays the story in the Northern Territory of Australia. However, the characters begin their journey in Wyndham which in the state of Western Australia.
ā¢ The state of Victoria is not shown on the map at the start.
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Technical specs
- Sound mix
- Mono
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
- Color
- Black and White
