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Drylanders

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Drylanders

The National Film Board's First Feature Length Presentation

6.0

1h 9m

1962

“The National Film Board's First Feature Length Presentation”

Synopsis

The epic story of the opening of the Canadian West and the drought that brought the Depression in the thirties. This is the saga of a family who left eastern Canada to stake their future in the Prairies.

Director

Don Haldane

DramaFamilyWestern

canadaagriculturedroughtprairieshistory

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Cast & Crew

Frances Hyland

Frances Hyland

as Liza

James B. Douglas

James B. Douglas

as Dan (as James Douglas)

Lester Nixon

as Bob MacPherson

Mary Savidge

as Ada MacPherson (as Mary Savage)

William Fruet

William Fruet

as Colin (as William Fruete)

Don Francks

Don Francks

as Russel

Ernest Huber

as Man in boxcar

William Weintraub

as Narrator

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