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Film Details - Platypus Productions , 1953
Producers:
George Heath and Chips Rafferty (producers).
Production Companies:
Platypus Productions.
Director of Photography:
George Heath.
Editors:
Gus Lowry.
Music:
William Lovelock.
Cast:
Including Chips Rafferty (The Sundowner), Victoria Shaw (Kim Marsden), Max Osbiston (Frank McLeod), Guy Doleman (Mr Stapleton), Henry Murdoch (Dancer), Bob Darken (Jack Roxy), Joe Scully (The Moth), George Neil (Skeeter), Bill Gregory (Drovers' Cook), Albert Namatjira (Albert), Hawkeye Tim (Chungidor), and Tim Riley (Satchelfoot).
Release Dates:
Released in Australia (Brisbane) in June 1953.
Retitled (Return of the Plainsman) and released in the US on 15 September 1953.
Location:
- Filmed in Alice Springs, Northern Territory.
