The Drover's Wife

TV Movie
1968
45m

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Alone with her four children and a dog, a drover's wife spends an anxious night fearful of a snake that has slithered under the house. An account of her life is given by a narrator.Alone with her four children and a dog, a drover's wife spends an anxious night fearful of a snake that has slithered under the house. An account of her life is given by a narrator.Alone with her four children and a dog, a drover's wife spends an anxious night fearful of a snake that has slithered under the house. An account of her life is given by a narrator.

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Clarissa Kaye-Mason

The wife
(as Clarissa Kaye)

Mark Healey

Tommy

William McCallum

Jacky

Vicki Weller

The girl

Allan Ashbolt

Self - Narrator
(voice)

Director
- Gian-Carlo Manara
Writer
- Henry Lawson
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Mozjoukine

Forgotten Asutralian breakthrough drama.

Giancarlo Manara had been an assistant to Visconti on SENSO and the fledgling ABC TV brass hired him in to raise the tone of local production, which ended with him being stuck in a corner of the news room going out every month or so to do Italian language news item.

He managed to break free of these restraints and make an innovative documentary called LIVING ON THE FRINGE which attracted some attention and from that contrived to be put in charge of an atmospheric dramatisation of a celebrated Henry Lawson story with James Mason's then wife in the lead. This stood out in the lackluster dramas being made for Australian TV and should have led to more ambitious projects for Manara. It did not.

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[Foreword] Until recent times, only a few determined pioneers dared to brave the loneliness and hardship of life in the Australian outback. Around these men, women and children, struggling against an inhospitable land, many myths and legends have grown up. This is one of those tales.