Drama Smörgåsbord Down Under - Disc 12:
All The Rivers Run....."Orphaned after a shipwreck off the Victorian coast of Australia, the beautiful and spirited Philadelphia Gordon finds both love and adventure aboard a paddle-steamer on the Murray River."
The Shiralee...."Macauley is a swagman on the road in Australia during the1940s 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 responsibilities. Neither he nor his daughter are ready for each other. But in the beginning he's all she's got, and at the end, she's all he's got."
Starring Bryan Brown who was hot property back in those days (The Thorn Birds, A Town Like Alice, Breaker Morant, Against The Wind, Gorillas In The Mist). I recall this being on Masterpiece Theatre in the US about 20 years ago.
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