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1962

Drylanders

Directed by Don Haldane
The National Film Board's First Feature Length Presentation

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.

Duration

1h 9m

Released

April 25, 1962

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Cast8

  • Frances Hyland
  • James B. Douglas
  • Lester Nixon
  • Mary Savidge
  • William Fruet
  • Don Francks
  • Ernest Huber
  • William Weintraub

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