Drylanders
The National Film Board's First Feature Length Presentation
69 mins
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.
Lester Nixon
Bob MacPherson
Mary Savidge
Ada MacPherson (as Mary Savage)
Ernest Huber
Man in boxcar
William Weintraub
Narrator
Ron Alexander
Sound
Peter Jones
Producer
Clarke Da Prato
Sound
M. Charles Cohen
Writer
Reginald H. Morris
Director of Photography
Kirk Jones
Editor
Eldon Rathburn
Music
John Kemeny
Editor