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Fred Zinnemann Directs The Sundowners

BBC Two
on BBC Two England

Starring
Deborah Kerr
Robert Mitchum
1920s Australia:
Paddy Carmody and his family are 'sundowners' - folk who travel around the country working where they can and making their home wherever the sun sets.
Paddy loves the freedom of their life but his wife
Ida and his son Sean would like to settle down - a conflict that is resolved in an unexpected way.
Screenplay Isobel Lennart from the novel by Jon Cleary
* FILMS: pages 15-20

Contributors

Unknown:
Deborah Kerr
Unknown:
Robert Mitchum
Unknown:
Paddy Carmody
Unknown:
Isobel Lennart
Novel By:
Jon Cleary
Ida:
Deborah Kerr
Paddy:
Robert Mitchum
Venneker:
Peter Ustinov
Sean:
Michael Anderson Jr
Mrs Firth:
Glynis Johns
Jean Halstead:
Dina Merrill
Quinlan:
Chips Rafferty
Liz:
Lola Brooks
Bluey:
John Meillon
Source: Radio Times

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