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But in the beginning he's all she's got, and at the end, she's all he's got.
Finding his Sydney based wife shacked up with another man, he takes his daughter (Dana Wilson) and resumes his wandering ways. In 1854, Australian gold rush miners struggle for their rights against an oppressive government.
Figures are in US dollars.LINDSAY ANDERSON, and DAVID DENT. Rather than kill all their cattle, a... With Peter Finch, Dana Wilson, Elizabeth Sellars, George Rose. Help Center Contributor Zone Polls. 10 of 12 people found this review helpful. IMDb TV IMDb Originals Latest Trailers. Was this review helpful to you? People are evacuating and burning everything in a "scorched earth" policy. In Australian slang, "shiralee" means "burden." A television given as a retirement present is sold on to different households, causing misery each time. With a young child as his responsibility, he finds he can't … It was on the Disney Channel. Community.
Quietly competent young Joanna moves with her scatterbrain mother to a country village to take up her first job as District Nurse. 4 of 6 people found this review helpful. Regarding The Shiralee, D'Arcy Niland said: "It is a biblical truth that all men have burdens.This is the simple story of a man with a burden, a swagman with his swag, or shiralee, which in this case happens to be a child. IMDb TV IMDb Originals Latest Trailers. At the Conway Aero-Manufacturing Company...
A Royal Air Force pilot who was shot down during World War II returns home to his English village with his new bride.
Amazon.com. Macauley is a swagman on the road in the 1940s looking for work. In London, a Canadian serving prison time for grand theft escapes prison and attempts to retrieve his loot, kept in a bank safety deposit box, but his accomplice takes the security key while he only has the pass code. Macauley is a swagman on the road in the 1940s looking for work.
Australian release: 29 August 1957.
All. I wish now that we had a copy of it. He sometimes dismisses her but comes to realise that he is more fond of her than he cares to admit when she nearly dies.
Web. Sign In. The Shiralee ( 27 ) IMDb 6.6 1h 43min 1987 13+ In the heat of the moment he vents his anger by taking custody of their young daughter Buster and heads for the back blocks of South Australia.
The trouble is that she is the German lady who helped him escape.
One of the last efforts of Ealing Studios, and a good one, though certainly not on a par with their Alec Guinness comedies. With a young child as his responsibility, he finds he can't be quite the fancy-free wanderer that he had been. Macauley narrowly prevents his wife making off with Buster, but after Buster is hit by a car and badly injured, he finds out that his wife is divorcing him and trying to gain legal custody of Buster. He's a laid back, laconic sort of bloke but when he gets landed with his daughter after his drunken play-girl wife in Adelaide makes him face up to what she believes are his responsibilities, neither he nor his daughter are ready for each other. Sydney opening at the St James: 22 August 1957. 17 out of 18 found this helpful.
A really enjoyable film that shows a mans love for his little daughter and her love for him.
The Shiralee ( 27 ) IMDb 6.6 1h 43min 1987 13+ In the heat of the moment he vents his anger by taking custody of their young daughter Buster and heads for the back blocks of South Australia. For Industry Professionals. Directed by Leslie Norman. It isn't, though. The Shiralee ( Macaulay's Daughter ) DVD Starring: Bryan Brown , Noni Hazlehurst , Lewis Fitz-Gerald , et al. Macauley tries to get a job with a previous employer, Parker, but he angrily tells Macauley to go away, saying he had left his daughter Lily pregnant.
13 out of 13 found this helpful. Certificate: Tous Public
The Shiralee is a 1957 British film in the Australian Western genre. He only rewrote one scene but it was enough to appease Mick.
The Shiralee ends on a curious note.
After watching it today I kind of wonder. He beats up the man and takes his daughter, Buster, with him. "THE LOCAL FILM SCENE: Young Producer On the Go -- British Cooperation -- Mr. Finch's Story" by HOWARD THOMPSON. Was this review helpful? I saw this movie for the first time when I was eight years old. Cut to 99 minutes in the U.K. Use the HTML below. I said that it wouldn't be in the film, so he said all right and to get him a script. Given the plot line, this could easily have been cutesy or mawkish. It's the start of WWII in Northern Australia. Use the HTML below.