Drylanders
6.5
1962
1 hr 9 min
Drama
, Western
, Family
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.
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- Cast：
- Frances Hyland , James B. Douglas , William Fruet , Don Francks
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So much average
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Good movie but grossly overrated
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This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.
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The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful
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