"He's an outback legend - a tough, dogged giant of a man . . . and this is his story." 05 May 1954 Factual 65 mins
This 1954 classic follows an outback mailman as he travels along the Birdsville Track.
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Tom Kruse as Self
William Henry Butler as Self
Old Joe the Rainmaker as Self
The Oldfields Of Etadunna as Themselves
Bejah as Self
John Heyer Director
Australia 05 May 1954
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Available now at This 1954 classic follows the life of an outback mailman as he delivers supplies to ...
John Heyer's 1950's Aussie adventure film following Tom Kruse along the Birdsville Track. Winner of the Absolute Grand Prize at the 1954 Venice International ...
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15 January 1954
A story about an upper-class student and a poor servant girl who fall in love despite everyone being against it.
10 August 1954
Mr. Gray is the new Resident in Charge of the Welcome Islands in the Indian Ocean. The Islands are full of life, but the only other Europeans are the "sanctimonious, psalm-singing" brother-sister missionary team of Martha and Owen Jordans, and the Honourable Ted - a hard-drinking, womanizing social outcast whose English family pays him to stay away.
08 December 1954
The story of an honest young man entangled by a night singer in the Camorra.
12 March 1954
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22 September 1954
In this espionage film, Mata Hari's daughter takes the mantle from her notorious mother and entangles her self in an Asian web of intrigue and war.
04 November 1954
Everything-but-the-kitchen-sink melodrama: young widow suffers everything life can throw at her.
01 January 1954
From The World of Life film series. A documentary narrated by Robert Beatty, of a working day of Laurie Smith - the Head Keeper of London Zoo.
05 May 1954
Lemmy Caution is on the trail of a women who may or may not be mixed up in a blackmail scheme.
02 April 1954
A young woman takes up a job as a cook in a wealthy couple's residence. Her employer, an elderly man is infatuated with her, much to the dismay of his arrogant wife.
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