Drylanders

Drylanders

The National Film Board's First Feature Length Presentation

6.5
1962
1h 9m
HD
DramaFamilyWestern

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.

Top Cast

Frances Hyland

Frances Hyland

Liza

James B. Douglas

James B. Douglas

Dan (as James Douglas)

L

Lester Nixon

Bob MacPherson

M

Mary Savidge

Ada MacPherson (as Mary Savage)

William Fruet

William Fruet

Colin (as William Fruete)

Don Francks

Don Francks

Russel

E

Ernest Huber

Man in boxcar

W

William Weintraub

Narrator

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