Search results
The Drover's Wife: The Legend of Molly Johnson, or simply The Drover's Wife, is a 2021 Australian revisionist Western film directed, written, and co-produced by Leah Purcell in her feature directorial debut.
Outside a remote 1890s Australian frontier town, a woman caring for her home and family in her husband's absence forms a connection with a fugitive. Watch trailers & learn more.
Nov 9, 2021 · Leah Purcell’s The Drover’s Wife: the Legend of Molly Johnson is an inspired and compelling re-imagining of Henry Lawson’s The Drover’s Wife, a short story originally published in The...
The Drover's Wife: The Legend of Molly Johnson occasionally struggles to cohere, but writer-director-star Leah Purcell offers a unique, compelling perspective on historic myths. Read...
- (61)
- Drama, Western
May 10, 2021 · His wife Louisa is far more sympathetic, something the movie visualizes with unfortunate heavy-handedness in a late scene that probably worked better on stage. But while Molly appreciates the...
May 5, 2022 · On an isolated property, heavily pregnant Molly Johnson has a secret she must keep buried. While her drover husband is away, she and her children struggle to survive. Molly is confronted by a fugitive Aboriginal man, Yadaka.
Aug 19, 2022 · Henry Lawson’s 1892 short story The Drover’s Wife is a core Australian text, the tale of a woman living in a remote rural cabin in the outback of the late 19 th century. Her husband is away for months at a time, driving livestock, and when a snake approaches her cabin, she protects her children.
