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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...
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Plot:
Two young children are stranded in the Australian outback and are forced to cope on their own. They...
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Awards:
1 nomination
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User Comments:
Beautiful lead character and a film with a subtle message
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Crew believed to be complete
Additional Details
Runtime:
100 min | USA:100 min (1997 reissue) | USA:95 min (original version)
Color:
Color (Eastmancolor)
Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1
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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.
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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.
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Soundtrack:
Gasoline Alley
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I first remember seeing this film as a late teenager in about 1979. Therefore what most vividly stuck in my mind was the lead character played by a beautiful blonde English girl, Jenny Agutter, Specifically the nude scenes of her swimming and washing.
On a less superficial level it is a film with a point-something along the lines of the graciousness of Aborigines and their ability to live in harsh surrounds, and the destructive nature of suburban life in a flat in a major city.
I think it would be a film, like Jedda, that will always be on reference for the Australian Outback, Aboriginals and the modern society which brought a European civilisation to their land.