Today’s movie is a period drama with a scene that happens
on February 19. Watch it tonight and enjoy.
AUSTRALIA
Lady Sarah
Ashley travels to her husband’s cattle station Faraway Downs in Australia. He
is murdered shortly before she arrives and an indigenous Australian called
“King George” is accused of the crime. When her manager Fletcher mistreats a
half-native boy, Nullah after he informs her of cattle thieving by her
neighbor, cattle baron “King” Carney, she fires Fletcher. Since she can’t have
children of her own, Lady Sarah informally adopts Nullah after his mother is
killed. Lady Sarah gets Drover, a ranch hand to take her cattle to Darwin to
sell them. In spite of many difficulties, some created by Carney’s men, the
cattle are sold and Drover and Lady Sarah start a relationship. Fletcher kills
Carney, marries his daughter and continues to harass Lady Sarah. We learn he
also killed Lady Sarah’s husband and is Nullah’s father. Two years later Nullah
is taken by the authorities to an island near Darwin with other native orphans.
Drover and Lady Sarah quarrel and he leaves. On February 19, 1942 [2:03:30 to
2:21:30] when the Japanese bomb Darwin and the island, Lady Ashley fears Nullah
is dead. Drover rescues Nullah and the pair are reunited with Lady Sarah.
Fletcher tries to kill Nullah, but “King George”; Nullah’s grandfather kills
him. Lady Sarah and Drover return to Faraway downs, while Nullah and his
grandfather return to the bush.
Fire in the Sky by Eric M. Bergerud (Westview Press,
Boulder, 2000) at page 37 gives the date of the raid
Director - Baz Luhrmann
Producers - Baz Luhrmann,
Catherine Knapman and G. Mac Brown
Screenplay - Baz Luhrmann, Ronald
Harwood, Stuart Beattieand Richard Flanagan
Awards – The film was nominated
for the Best Costume Design Oscar at the 81st
Academy Awards
Released – November 26, 2008
Runtime – 2 hours 45 minutes
Starring –
Nicole Kidman as Lady Sarah
Ashley.
Hugh Jackman as Drover.
David Wenham as Neil Fletcher.
Bryan Brown as Lesley 'King'
Carney.
Jack Thompson as Kipling Flynn
David Gulpilil as King George
Brandon Walters as Nullah
David Ngoombujarra as Magarri
Ben Mendelsohn as Captain Emmett
Dutton
Copyright by Ivan Walters in
2015.
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