The Overlanders (1946)

Directed by

Harry Watt

Genre

drama film, Western film

Country

Australia, United Kingdom

Runtime

1h 31m

Rating

6.0 of 10 from 23 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

During World War II, a group of drovers moves a massive cattle herd across the harsh Australian outback. They travel over a thousand miles to find safe grazing land, facing the physical challenges of the journey.

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What happens

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. 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 subgenre of Western films later dubbed the Australian Western. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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