The Overlanders (film)
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| Directed by | Harry Watt |
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| Cinematography | Osmond Borradaile |
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| Music by | John Ireland |
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Running time | 91 minutes |
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| Language | English |
| Budget | £40,000 or £80,000 or £130,000 |
| Box office | £160,000 (Australia) 1,143,888 admissions (France) £250,000 (total) |
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 genre later dubbed the "meat pie western".