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Adaptation of
The Far Country
1952
single work
novel
Issue Details:
First known date:
1972...
1972
The Far Country
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Film Details - ABC Television , 1972
Producers:
Eric Tayler.
Production Companies:
Australian Broadcasting Commission.
Director of Photography:
Lloyd Shiels.
Cast:
Including Bernadette Hughson (Jennifer Morton), Graham Corry (Carl Zlinter), Peter Gwynne (Jack Dorman), and Betty Dyson (Jane Dorman).
The Australian Women's Weekly (Wed. 16 Feb. 1972, p.9), notes that Corry 'spent a great deal of time with a Czech friend before shooting began in order to perfect his Czech accent, a difficult and unusual one.'
Location:
- Filmed in Bathurst and Orange.
- According to the Australian Women's Weekly (Wed. 16 Feb. 1972, p.9), 'The production team found an old, abandoned homestead near Bathurst, N.S.W., which exactly fitted their idea of the house in the story, and it was renovated to suit the series. One of the most dramatic scenes is an accident in the lumber camp where Carl, the hero, works. This was staged in a real logging camp near Orange, with marvellous co-operation from the manager.'
