The Overlanders

Although superficially comparable with cattle drive Westerns like Red River, the emphasis in this film is on the cooperative nature of the enterprise - a cattle drive from Northern Australia in 1942 to escape the Japanese - rather than on notions of individualism at the centre of the western ethos. The Overlanders is a documentary in spirit, recreating the hazards of an epic drive and carefully assembling the mannerisms, vocabulary and attitudes to characterize the Australian bushman. There was also a strong role for a woman - Daphne Campbell as Mary Parsons - carrying on the tradition of the bush heroine established in Australian films of the twenties and thirties.

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"Although superficially comparable with cattle drive Westerns like Red River, the emphasis in this film is on the cooperative nature of the enterprise - a cattle drive from Northern Australia in 1942 to escape the Japanese - rather than on notions of individualism at the centre of the western ethos. The Overlanders is a documentary in spirit, recreating the hazards of an epic drive and carefully assembling the mannerisms, vocabulary and attitudes to characterize the Australian bushman. There was also a strong role for a woman - Daphne Campbell as Mary Parsons - carrying on the tradition of the bush heroine established in Australian films of the twenties and thirties."
"Although superficially comparable with cattle drive Westerns like Red River, the emphasis in this film is on the cooperative nature of the enterprise - a cattle drive from Northern Australia in 1942 to escape the Japanese - rather than on notions of individualism at the centre of the western ethos. The Overlanders is a documentary in spirit, recreating the hazards of an epic drive and carefully assembling the mannerisms, vocabulary and attitudes to characterize the Australian bushman. There was also a strong role for a woman - Daphne Campbell as Mary Parsons - carrying on the tradition of the bush heroine established in Australian films of the twenties and thirties."@en
"In 1943, Australian cattle drovers save a thousand head of cattle from the threatened Japanese invasion, by driving them two thousand miles across country."@en
"In 1943, Australian cattle drovers save a thousand head of cattle from the threatened Japanese invasion, by driving them two thousand miles across country."
"Based on fact, the story of an Australian drover and his courageous team who drive a thousand head of cattle across 1500 miles of semi-desert to save them from the Japanese."
"[A factual account, with fictional twists, of an hazardous 2000 mile cattle drive across northern Australia beginning in 1942 and lasting 15 months.]."@en
"Based on fact, the story of an Australian drover and his courageous team who drive a thousand head of cattle across 1500 miles of semi-desert to save them from the Japanese in 1942."
"Feature film from Australia. Drama. Set in the outback in 1943, a drover treks a thousand head of cattle on an alternate route across two thousand miles to save them from the Japanese."
"In 1943 the Japanese get close to invading Australia. In the Northern Territory the cattlemen are taking drastic measures, abandoning their land and cattle to avoid capture. One cattleman Dan McAlpine (played by Chips Raffety) refuses to shoot his cattle and abandon his livelihood; instead he leads his herd of over 1000 cattle to Queensland, 3000km away. On the way, the horsemen (and women) encounter the harsh conditions of the Australian landscape."
"A look at outback life during WWII ... "an honest insight into the life of the drovers who, before road trains, faced the outback with their vast herds of cattle and drove them for months through all conditions"."
""It's the beginning of World War II and the Japanese are closing in on Northern Australia. People are ordered to evacuate as soon as possible and ... forced to destroy anything that might be useful to an invading enemy. Chips Rafferty ... is a farmhand who rebels against the government's strategic operation and refuses to kill his livestock. Instead he decides to risk his life by leading his immense herd of cattle beyond civilization and into the hazardous terrains of the Ozzie outback ..."--Container."
"The story takes place in 1943 when a master drover (Chips Rafferty) saves over a thousand head of cattle from the threat of Japanese invasion by trekking them across two thousand miles of harsh country. Based on an actual cattle drive that was made during 1942. This was the film that made Chips Rafferty an international star. Also features Daphne Campbell who was later to become Miss South Australia."@en