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Drylanders
19631 h 9 min 24 secFilm: Fiction, Feature-length fiction
Direction: Don Haldane
Production: Peter Jones
Script: Charles CohenWilliam Weintraub
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. Principle roles are played by Frances Hyland and James Douglas.
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Subject categories
- History - Canada - 1920-1945 > DroughtEconomic Crisis 1929Great DepressionSettlementWestern Canada
- Agriculture > Historical PerspectivesNatural disastersPioneersPrairiesRural Life
- History - Canada - 1867-1919 > Immigration and SettlementPrairies and Western Canada
- Social Studies > Social History
- Geography > Territory: AgriculturalTerritory: Regional
- History > The Depression Era
Credits
- director
- Don Haldane
- producer
- Peter Jones
- script
- Charles Cohen
- commentary
- William Weintraub
- photography
- Reginald Morris
- sound
- Clarke Daprato
- Ron Alexander
- editing
- John Kemeny
- Kirk Jones
- narrator
- William Weintraub
- music
- Eldon Rathburn
- cast
- James Douglas
- Don Francks
- Frances Hyland
- Irena Mayeska
- Lester Nixon
- Mary Savage
- William Fruete