Release, runtime and language

1946 · 91 mins · English

Directed by

Harry Watt

Starring

Chips Rafferty, Steve Dodd, Peter Pagan, John Fernside, Stan Tolhurst, Helen Grieve

A dramatic epic captures Australia’s vast spirit at the dawn of WWII in the north. As Japanese forces approach, civilians enact a scorched‑earth retreat, burning settlements. Rather than slaughter their cattle, a diverse group drives the herd across the continent, journeying from Wyndham in Western Australia, through the Northern Territory outback, to new grazing lands near Brisbane, Queensland.