Drylanders

Drylanders

69 mins | Drama, Family, Western | Jan. 1, 1962

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.

Drylanders

69 mins | Drama, Family, Western | Jan. 1, 1962

Drylanders
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.
Producers National Film Board of Canada
Original title Drylanders
Directors Don Haldane
Writers M. Charles Cohen

Cast

Frances Hyland

as Liza

James B. Douglas

as Dan (as James Douglas)

Lester Nixon

as Bob MacPherson

Mary Savidge

as Ada MacPherson (as Mary Savage)

William Fruet

as Colin (as William Fruete)

Don Francks

as Russel

Ernest Huber

as Man in boxcar

William Weintraub

as Narrator