At eight years old, an impoverished Bert Facey was forced to start the backbreaking, dawn-to-dusk life of a farm labourer. Unschooled, his father dead, abandoned by his mother, by the age of twenty he had survived the rigours of pioneering the harsh Australian bush and the slaughter of the bloody WWI campaign at Gallipoli.
Cast
D
Dorothy Allison
Grandma Carr
D
Dale Randall
Roy Facey
J
John Ley
Eric Facey
A
Anthony Richards
Bert (9 Years)
B
Benedict Sweeney
Bert (14 Years)
D
Dominic Sweeney
Bert
P
Pat Bishop
Alice McCall
Paul Sonkkila
Archie McCall
J
Jeffrey Rhoe
Jock McKay
M
Maurie Ogden
Cop
L
Leslie Wright
Jack Lander
R
Raelene Hughes
Young Alice McCall
Val Lehman
Bert's Mother
Ray Meagher
Bad Bob
Bill Hunter
Charlie Bibby
Bill Kerr
Narrator (voice)
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