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The film was financed by the Rank Organisation, which had also financed The Overlanders (1946) in Australia. Smart had worked on that film, which made a star of Chips Rafferty who signed on to star in Bush Christmas. He also assisted in casting. [9]
The film was financed by the Rank Organisation, which had also financed The Overlanders (1946) in Australia. Smart had worked on that film, which made a star of Chips Rafferty who signed on to star in Bush Christmas. He also assisted in casting. [9] Bush Christmas was originally planned as a serial, but it was then decided to turn it into a ...
Bush Christmas (also known as Prince and the Great Race) is a 1983 Australian Christmas drama film and a remake of the 1947 film of the same name. The film marked actress Nicole Kidman 's first feature film role.
This brilliant Australian film depicts Yuletide life in country Australia in the 1940s. A family of children, whose father owns a horse farm, realise the horses have been stolen, so they set out to track the horse thieves in an effort to return the horses to their father as a Christmas present.
Bush Christmas was made almost entirely for consumption by British children but it became very popular with Australian children as well. Children’s Entertainment Films ( CEF ) was set up in 1943 by J Arthur Rank to make films for his network of Children’s Cinema Clubs across Britain.
This Aussie set children's film sees a bunch of kids ride off into the bush to try and track down a bunch of horse thieves having been blamed for allowing the rustlers to get away and having had Christmas cancelled as punishment.
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In the Australian outback a family struggles to keep its farm from foreclosure. Their only hope is that their horse, Prince, will win money in a New Year's race. But when Prince is stolen the children embark on a dangerous and exciting adventure to get him back. Watch at home.
