Drylanders

Drylanders

Drylanders

The National Film Board's First Feature Length Presentation

6.0/ 10

1962

1h 9m

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