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Heritage (DVD) (*)

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Screened, competed or awarded at:
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
English ( Mono )

Product Origin/Format:
Australia ( PAL/NTSC/Region 0 )

Running Time:
94 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Black & White

Movie filmed in 1935 and produced in:
Australia ( Australia, New Zealand )

Directed By:
Charles Chauvel

Written By:
Charles Chauvel

Actors:
Frank Harvey ..... Governor Phillip
Franklyn Bennett ..... James Morrison / Frank Morrison
Margot Rhys ..... Jane Judd
Mary Maguire ..... Biddy O'Shea / Biddy Parry
Harold Meade ..... Frank Parry
Joe Valli ..... Short
Norman French ..... Governor Macquarie
Elsa Chauvel ..... Mrs. Macquarie
Leonard Stephens ..... Greenway
Austin Milroy ..... Major Ross
Victor Fitzherbert ..... William Charles Wentworth
Gertrude Boswell ..... Mrs. Judd
Dora Mostyn ..... Mother Carey
Godfrey Cass ..... Harding
Florence Esmond ..... Mrs. Boggs

Synopsis:

In colonial Australia, James Morrison is a young teamster who has two friends, Long and Short. He is betrothed to Jane Judd when he visits Sydney and meets fiery Irish girl Biddy O'Shea, who is just off the "wife ship" - a boatload of women from an Irish orphanage bought out to Australia. James is attracted to Biddy and promises to marry her. James returns to Bathurst to break the news to Jane, but his mother dies and makes James promise to marry her daughter. He feels obliged to honour his old commitment to Jane. Biddy hears of the news and marries an ex-convict, James Parry, who she does not love. They start a farm and have a baby son together, Jack. James later comes across a homestead being attacked by aboriginals and discovers Biddy mortally wounded, and her husband dead - but her baby is still alive. James raises the baby as his own. Frank Parry grows up as brother with Tom, the son of James and Jane. In the 1930s Frank Morrison battles to save his outback station. He falls in love with Biddy Parry.

Chauvel's second sound feature was ambitious in scope spanning many decades in a cavalcade of Australian history with a tendency towards tableaux rather than free-flowing drama. Heritage traces the life and loves of James Morrison in colonial times and his descendant Frank Morrison in the 1930s. Chauvel was to return with more dramatic maturity to the theme of generations struggling to establish and maintain a foothold in the outback in the Sons of Matthew.

This product was added to our catalog on Wednesday 23 September, 2015.