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7.7/10   6,197 votes
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Release Date:
1 July 1971 (USA) more
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A boy and girl face the challenge of the world's last frontier. Dangers they had never known before... A people they had never seen before... more
Plot:
Two young children are stranded in the Australian outback and are forced to cope on their own. They... more | add synopsis
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1 nomination more
NewsDesk:
(7 articles)
Cave 'inspired by Nabokov, Amis, Roeg'
 (From digitalspy. 17 September 2009, 5:32 AM, PDT)

Gay Of The Dead 9: Bruce Labruce and Otto; Or, Up With Dead People.
 (From Fangoria. 29 March 2009, 11:03 PM, PDT)

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The Australian outback comes alive. more (103 total)

Cast

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Jenny Agutter ... Girl
Luc Roeg ... White Boy (as Lucien John)
David Gulpilil ... Black Boy (as David Gumpilil)
John Meillon ... Man
Robert McDarra ... Man (as Robert McDara)
Peter Carver ... No Hoper (as Pete Carver)
John Illingsworth ... Young Man
Hilary Bamberger ... Woman
Barry Donnelly ... Australian Scientist
Noeline Brown ... German Scientist (as Noelene Brown)
Carlo Manchini ... Italian Scientist
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Additional Details

Runtime:
100 min | USA:100 min (1997 reissue) | USA:95 min (original version)
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Color (Eastmancolor)
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1.85 : 1 more
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Certification:
Singapore:NC-16 | Sweden:11 | UK:12 (video rating: 2000) | UK:AA (original rating) | USA:GP (re-rating on appeal) | USA:R (original rating) | West Germany:12

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Trivia:
The poetry quoted by the narrator at the end of the film is Part 40 of A.E. Housman's "A Shropshire Lad": Into my heart an air that kills From yon far country blows: What are those blue remembered hills, What spires, what farms are those? That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, The happy highways where I went And cannot come again. more
Goofs:
Errors in geography: The girl asks to be taken to the city of Adelaide, the children's destination in the novel. However, the city shown at the start and end of the film is clearly Sydney, which is several thousand kilometers (and two states) away from Adelaide. more
Quotes:
White Boy: Well, where are we now? more
Movie Connections:
Referenced in Gulpilil: One Red Blood (2002) (V) more

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21 out of 24 people found the following comment useful.
The Australian outback comes alive., 28 February 1999
10/10
Author: Tophee from Morrisville, PA

Superb cinematography, the Australian outback comes alive in this film of self discovery and regret. Agutter plays the English girl brilliantly, incapable of comprehending anybody or anything that doesn't conform to her middle-class values and upbringing. Roeg is also excellent as her brother, adapting to each and every change in circumstance as only children can. I have watched this movie many times, and always get something new from it. Highly recommended to anyone, although parents might want to watch it before letting their kids see it.

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