The Overlanders

IMDb link: 0038821
IMDb rating: 6.5 (563 votes)
Genres: Adventure, Drama, Western
Director: Harry Watt
Cast: Chips Rafferty, John Nugent Hayward, Daphne Campbell, Jean Blue and others

Release date: 26 Dec 1946
Release year: 1946
Runtime: 91 minutes
Country: United Kingdom, Australia
Keywords: cattle drive, man wears eyeglasses, australian western, travel, saying thank you, countryside, apology, hiking, city, cattleman

Plot:

It's the start of WWII in Northern Australia. The Japanese are getting close. People are evacuating and burning everything in a "scorched earth" policy. Rather than kill all their cattle, a disparate group decides to drive them overland half way across the continent.

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