It's the start of WWII in Northern Australia. The Japanese are getting close. People are evacuating and burning everything in a "scorched earth" policy. Rather than kill all their cattle, a disparate group decides to drive them overland half way across the continent, from Wyndham in Western Australia through the Northern Territory outback of Australia to pastures north of Brisbane, Queensland.
Chips Rafferty
as Dan McAlpine
John Nugent Hayward
as Bill Parsons
Daphne Campbell
as Mary Parsons
Jean Blue
as Mrs. Parsons
Helen Grieve
as Helen Parsons
John Fernside
as Corky
Peter Pagan
as Sailor
Frank Ransome
as Charlie
Stan Tolhurst
as Manager
Marshall Crosby
as Minister
Clyde Combo
as Aborigine Jacky
Henry Murdoch
as Aborigine Nipper
