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Film Details - ABC Television , 1975
Producers:
Alan Burke
Production Companies:
Australian Broadcasting Commission
Director of Photography:
Lloyd Shiels
Production Designers:
Quentin Hole
Composer:
Peter Sculthorpe
Cast:
Chris Haywood (Bob Squires), Jacqueline Kott, Sandra McGregor (Pretty Polly), Wyn Roberts, Michael Craig, Cornelia Frances, Melissa Jaffer, John Hargreaves, Ralph Cotterill, Hugh Keays-Byrne, Justine Saunders, Drew Forsythe
Release Dates:
First broadcast by ABC Television in March 1975.
Awards:
- Logie Awards (1976), Best Individual Performance by an Actor - Chris Haywood (winner)
Settings:
- Port Essington, Cobourg Peninsula, West Arnhem Land, Arnhem Land, Top End, Northern Territory,
- 1840s
