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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 Overlanders: Directed by Harry Watt. With Chips Rafferty, John Nugent Hayward, Daphne Campbell, Jean Blue. 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.
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- Adventure, Drama, Western
- Harry Watt
- 1946-12-26
Feb 7, 2018 · The Overlanders. Inspired by a true tale, this film follows horseman Dan McAlpine (Chips Rafferty) as he guides a massive herd of cattle across the punishing terrain of northern...
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- Harry Watt
- Adventure
- Chips Rafferty
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In British writer/director Harry Watt's influential, dramatic, western-adventure epic of WWII, a recreation of a true-life event that occurred in 1942 -- it was the first Ealing Studios production in Australia, the first Australian movie to be filmed almost entirely outdoors, and a precursor to Howard Hawks' similar western Red River (1948):
The Overlanders is a 1946 British 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...
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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.
