Drylanders

Drylanders

The National Film Board's First Feature Length Presentation

1962 · Drama, Family, Western · 1h 9m · 6.5

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.

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Cast

Frances Hyland
Frances Hyland
Liza
James B. Douglas
James B. Douglas
Dan (as James Douglas)
L
Lester Nixon
Bob MacPherson
M
Mary Savidge
Ada MacPherson (as Mary Savage)
William Fruet
William Fruet
Colin (as William Fruete)
Don Francks
Don Francks
Russel
E
Ernest Huber
Man in boxcar
W
William Weintraub
Narrator

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