Drylanders

Drylanders

The National Film Board's First Feature Length Presentation

1962 en 69 minutes

Rating: 6.5

Plot

The epic story of the opening of the Canadian West and the drought that brought the Depression in the thirties. This is the saga of a family who left eastern Canada to stake their future in the Prairies.

Trailer

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Cast

Frances Hyland

Frances Hyland

Liza

James B. Douglas

James B. Douglas

Dan (as James Douglas)

Lester Nixon

Lester Nixon

Bob MacPherson

Mary Savidge

Mary Savidge

Ada MacPherson (as Mary Savage)

William Fruet

William Fruet

Colin (as William Fruete)

Don Francks

Don Francks

Russel

Ernest Huber

Ernest Huber

Man in boxcar

William Weintraub

William Weintraub

Narrator

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