长途跋涉者 (1946)
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, from Wyndham in Western Australia through the Northern Territory outback of Australia to pastures north of Brisbane, Queensland.
- 上映日期
- 1946-09-27
- TMDB
- 6.0 / 10 (23)
- 片长（分钟）
- 1小时31分钟
- 类型
- 西部, 冒险
- 导演
- Harry Watt
演员阵容
- 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
- Frank Ransome — Charlie
- Stan Tolhurst — Manager
- Marshall Crosby — Minister
- Clyde Combo — Aborigine Jacky
- Henry Murdoch — Aborigine Nipper
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The Overlanders is a 1946 British-Australian Western film about drovers driving a large herd of cattle 1,600 miles (2,575 km) overland from Wyndham, Western Australia through the Northern Territory outback of Australia to pastures north of Brisbane, Queensland, during World War II.
Production
Five hundred cattle were purchased by Ealing for use in the film. They were marked with the "overland" brand and later sold off, for profit.
Shooting began in April 1945 at Sydney's North Head Quarantine Station, which stood in for the meat export centre at Wyndham, in Western Australia. The unit was then flown by the RAAF to Alice Springs, where they were based in an army camp.
A second unit headed by John Heyer spent several weeks filming movement of cattle from the air.
Three months later, the unit moved to the Roper River camp on the Elsey Station for another month, where the river crossing sequence was shot. This station was famous from the book We of the Never Never. In mid-September, the unit returned to Sydney after five months of shooting.
During the making of the film, Campbell met and married her future husband.
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