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Drylanders

"The National Film Board's First Feature Length Presentation"

60
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1h 9m
Drama, Western, Family
Starring Frances Hyland · James B. Douglas · William Fruet
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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.

Director
Don Haldane
Producer
Peter Jones
Studio
ONF | NFB
Keywords
canada agriculture drought prairies history
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Cast

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F
Frances Hyland
Liza
J
James B. Douglas
Dan (as James Douglas)
W
William Fruet
Colin (as William Fruete)
D
Don Francks
Russel
W
William Weintraub
Narrator

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