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We of the never never
[DVD] /
ScreenSound Australia ; Adams Packer Film Productions and Film Corporation of Western Australia ; screenplay by Peter Schreck ; executive producer, Phillip Adams ; produced by Greg Tepper ; Bldirected by Igor Auzins.
[Sydney :
Adams Packer Film Productions,
2006.
1 videodisc (ca. 134 min.) :
sd., col. ;
4 3/4 in.
Based on the book by Mrs. Aeneas Gunn.
Special features: Trailers (10 min.).
Front credits -- Married -- The Ferguson -- The new boss -- Your staff -- Round up -- The bull -- New dining room -- Alone -- Washing -- Tribal dance -- Christmas -- The fever -- End credits.
Director of photography, Gary Hansen ; editor, Clifford Hayes ; music, Peter Best ; production design, Josephine Ford ; art director, Graeme Duesbury ; wardrobe, Camilla Rountree ; aboriginal liaisons, Vikki Christie, Toni Bauman, Fred Ashley, Ina Thompson.
Angela Punch McGregor (Jeannie), Arthur Dignam (Aeneas Gunn), Martin Vaughan (Dan), Lewis Fitz-Gerald (Jack), John Jarratt (Dandy), Tony Barry (Mac), Tommy Lewis (Jackeroo), Donald Blitner (Goggle Eye), Mawayul Yanthalawuy (Rosie), Cecil Parkee (Cheon), Sibina Willy (Bett Bett).
Originally produced as an Australian motion picture in 1982.
This dramatization of a famous Australian novel presents an idyllic year in the life of a young woman. Jeannie Taylor marries Aeneas Gunn in 1901, and accompanies him to the Elsey Station near Mataranka, Northern Territory, 300 miles south of Darwin, where he is manager. As one of few white woman to settle in the area, her arrival is seen as highly undesirable by the men on the station: her coming means an end the life that is the very reason they are in the Territory: one of untrammeled freedom, with no need to bother with 'civilization' and its rules. Jeannie Gunn was feisty and good-natured, however, so she tried to fit in, yet remained open to what those around her--white or Aborigine--had to offer. The people and events of "We of the Never Never" are idealized, but her story is representative of Australian frontier myth: in the outback--a forbidding, faraway place, different from anywhere else--men and a few women battled hardship, isolation, and prejudice, and lived legendary, heroic lives.
Rating: Unrated.
DVD; Region 1; Dolby Digital sound; widescreen presentation, aspect ratio 2.35:1.
20170210.
In English.
Winner, 1982 Australian Film Institute Award, Best Achievement in Cinematography--Gary Hansen.
Gunn, Jeannie
1870-1961
Drama.
Ranchers' spouses
Drama.
Married people
Drama.
Interpersonal conflict
Drama.
Ranch life
Australia
Northern Territory
Drama.
Frontier and pioneer life
Australia
Northern Territory
Drama.
Aboriginal Australians
Australia
Northern Territory
Drama.
Yanyuwa (Australian people.)
Women
Feature.
Northern Territory
Social life and customs
Drama.
Northern Territory
Social conditions
Drama.
Northern Territory
Race relations
Drama.
Elsey Station (N.T)
Drama.
Action and adventure films.
lcgft
Western films.
lcgft
Historical films.
lcgft
Feature films.
Foreign films
Australia.
Australian literature
Film adaptations.
Historical
Feature.
Adventure
Feature.
Schreck, Peter.
Adams, Phillip.
Tepper, Greg.
Auzins, Igor.
McGregor, Angela Punch.
Dignam, Arthur.
Vaughan, Martin.
Fitz-Gerald, Lewis.
Jarratt, John,
1951-
Barry, Tony,
1941-
Lewis, Tommy,
1953-
Blitner, Donald.
Yanthalawuy, Mawayul.
Parkee, Cecil.
Willy, Sibina.
Gunn, Jeannie,
1870-1961
We of the never-never.
ScreenSound Australia.
Adams Packer Film Productions.
Film Corporation of Western Australia.
Tango Entertainment (Firm).