Plot
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
Dorothy Allison
as Grandma Carr
Dale Randall
as Roy Facey
John Ley
as Eric Facey
Anthony Richards
as Bert (9 Years)
Benedict Sweeney
as Bert (14 Years)
Dominic Sweeney
as Bert
Pat Bishop
as Alice McCall
Paul Sonkkila
as Archie McCall
Jeffrey Rhoe
as Jock McKay
Maurie Ogden
as Cop