The Overlanders (1946)
1h 31m
Running Time
September 27, 1946Release Date
The Overlanders (1946)
1h 31m
Running Time
September 27, 1946Release Date
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Plot.
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.
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This Movie Is About.
Cast & Crew.
Chips Rafferty
Dan McAlpine
John Nugent Hayward
Bill Parsons
Daphne Campbell
Mary Parsons
Jean Blue
Mrs. Parsons
Helen Grieve
Helen Parsons
John Fernside
Corky
Peter Pagan
Sailor ("Sinbad")
Frank Ransome
Charlie
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Wiki.
The Overlanders is a 1946 British-Australian Western film about drovers driving a large herd of cattle 1,600 miles overland from Wyndham, Western Australia through the Northern Territory outback of Australia to pastures north of Brisbane, Queensland during World War II.
The film was the first of several produced in Australia by Ealing Studios, and featured among the cast Chips Rafferty. It was an early example of the genre later dubbed the "meat pie western".