The Naked Country
The Powerful Story of ... Adventure, Passion and Survival
Far North Queensland, 1955. Deep in the untamed frontier tough rancher Lance Dillon and his sensual, but bored wife, battle inhospitable nature to eke out a living from their cattle herd. When the aborigines kill the Dillon's prize bull a chase begins that will culminate in bloody tragedy with Lance pitted against Mandaru - an aborigine struggling to maintain his cultural way of life
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John Stanton
Lance Dillon
Rebecca Gilling
Mary Dillon
Tom E. Lewis
Mandaru
John Jarratt
Mick Conrad
Ivar Kants
Sergeant Neil Adams
Simon Chilvers
Inspector Poole
Neela Dey
Menyan
Hector Thomas
Willinja
Donald Blitner
Billy Jo
Kevin McKellar
Jacky-Boy
Marlene Bell
Big Sally
Malcolm Cork
Constable Des O'Day
Michael Cockatoo
Tanglefoot
Roger Cox
Publican
Peter Noble
Gilligan
Peter Graham
Driver
Neville Jingles
Renegade: Tjumi
Curtis Kelly
Renegade: Yandedah
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