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Alternative title:
Prince and the Great Race
Adaptation of
Bush Christmas
1947
single work
children's fiction
Issue Details:
First known date:
1983...
1983
Bush Christmas
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'Based on the Rank Organisation's 1947 Australian classic of the same name, the film, set in the early 1950s outback Queensland, tells the story of a family's struggle to keep their homestead and of two bumbling thieves who steal their race-winning horse, which represents their main chance of survival.'
Source: National Film and Sound Archive
Source: National Film and Sound Archive
Notes
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Sources vary on whether this film is based on the 1980 reissued version of Ralph Smart and Mary Cathart Borer's Bush Christmas or on the 1947 film.
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