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The Shiralee is a 1987 Australian television film directed by George Ogilvie, based on the 1955 novel of the same name by D'Arcy Niland. It was originally filmed as a mini series and was shot in Adelaide and Quorn, South Australia .
2 ★★★★★ ratings (12%) ★★★★★. Popular reviews. More. Recent reviews. More. Macauley is a swagman on the road in the 1940s looking for work. He's a laid back, laconic sort of bloke but when he gets landed with his daughter after his drunken play-girl wife in Adelaide makes him face up to what she believes are his ...
Mar 18, 2009 · Is it possible for a story to mosey even as it races through fifteen years of a man's life in just thirty minutes? "The Shiralee," the 1987 two-part miniseries adapted from D'Arcy Niland's novel, moves along at the most casual of paces, even as it races us through its backstory to get to the story proper.
Ben Meyers International Movie Critics offers a written review of “The Shiralee” (1987) at: http://www.benmeyersinternational.com/2021/06/shiralee-tv-release...
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The Shiralee: With Bryan Brown, Noni Hazlehurst, Rebecca Smart, Lewis Fitz-Gerald. Macauley is a swagman who finds himself in charge of his young daughter, Buster. The pair hike across the harsh outback landscape, in an attempt to repair their relationship and find a home.
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The Shiralee. An Australian laborer (Peter Finch) drifts from job to job with his little girl (Dana Wilson), snatched from his ex-wife (Elizabeth Sellars). Saw the 1957 version with Peter Finch...
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The Shiralee is a 1957 British film directed by Leslie Norman and starring Peter Finch. [2] It is in the Australian Western genre, [3] based on the 1955 novel by D'Arcy Niland.
