

Drylanders
The National Film Board's First Feature Length Presentation
★ 6.519621h 9mReleased
DramaFamilyWestern
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.
Director
Don Haldane
Writer
M. Charles Cohen
Language
English
Top Cast

Frances Hyland
Liza

James B. Douglas
Dan (as James Douglas)
L
Lester Nixon
Bob MacPherson
M
Mary Savidge
Ada MacPherson (as Mary Savage)

William Fruet
Colin (as William Fruete)

Don Francks
Russel
E
Ernest Huber
Man in boxcar
W
William Weintraub
Narrator















