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- BFI identifier44857
- Date1957-07-29 (Release)
- Production countryUnited Kingdom
- Production company
- SynopsisTale of the wanderings of a Sydney man, 'Mac' Macauley, who takes to the road with five-year-old daughter, Buster, after finding his neglected wife, Marge, living with another man. Mac and Buster go from town to town looking for a job, though having a young daughter often proves an obstacle to finding work. Though fiercely proud and unwilling to ask for charity, Mac calls on old friends and acquaintances when Buster falls ill, and along the way learns that he ocne got an old flame pregnant. When, after a traffic accident, Marge tries to get Buster back via the courts, purely to spite Mac, Mac uses all his resilience to keep Buster with him. (Synopsis)
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- Subject
- CreditsDirector: Leslie Norman
Production Company: Ealing Films Limited
Presents: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
view all - CastPeter Finch (Macauley, 'Mac')
Dana Wilson (Buster Macauley)
Elizabeth Sellars (Marge Macauley)
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Title
The Shiralee (Original)
EIDR identifier
10.5240/B46E-899B-FEDE-9753-F167-TCategory
FictionThis work is included in the BFI Filmography.
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- Film / Video
35mm Master Positive - Safety - Sound - Master
35mm Duplicating Positive - Safety - Mute - Master
35mm BW Positive - Safety - Combined - Master
35mm BW Positive - Acetate - Combined - Master
view all - Scripts / DocumentsSHIRALEE - Synopsis - MEB-1698
SHIRALEE - I/305 General production file, 1956 I/305a General production file, 1957-January 1958 I/305b Legal and censorship file, 1956 I/305c Sets and scene numbers, dope sheets, etc. and crossplot I/305d Artistes' contracts - MEB-1912
Script - Original story: Based on the novel by D'Arcy Niland - SCR-16017
Ephemera: publicity - PBS-44857
Small Pressbook held
view all - StillsPhotograph: film still - Portrait - SPD-918207
Photograph: film still - Portrait - SPD-918208
Photograph: film still - Landscape - SPD-918209
Photograph: print - Landscape - Black and White - bfi-00o-c7v
Photograph: print - Landscape - Black and White - bfi-00o-c7w
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Work - 44857 - 1957-07-29 (Release)
United Kingdom - Film - Fiction
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