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Adaptation of
The Drover's Wife
1892
single work
short story
Issue Details:
First known date:
1968...
1968
The Drover's Wife
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Film Details - Australian Broadcasting Commission , 1968
Producers:
Allan Ashbolt.
Production Companies:
Australian Broadcasting Commission.
Director of Photography:
Lex Alcock and Geoff Burton.
Production Designers:
Douglas Smith.
Music:
Sven Libaek.
Cast:
Including Allan Ashbolt, Mark Healey, Clarissa Kaye-Mason, William McCallum, and Vicki Weller.
Release Dates:
Broadcast on ABC-TV on 29 August 1968 at 9:20pm.
Location:
- '"The Drover's Wife" was filmed at Hermidale, a little place about 40 miles from Nyngan, on the road to Bourke, N.S.W. The hut used in the film was an original drover's hut, built of stringybark and papered on the inside with newspapers of the late 1880s, but you couldn't see the date in the documentary.' (See 'Killing a Snake with Conviction'.)
