The Shiralee

Overview

Macauley is a swagman on the road in the 1940s looking for work. He's a laid back, laconic sort of bloke but when he gets landed with his daughter after his drunken play-girl wife in Adelaide makes him face up to what she believes are his responsibilities, neither he nor his daughter are ready for each other. But in the beginning he's all she's got, and at the end, she's all he's got.

Cast

Bryan Brown

Macauley

Noni Hazlehurst

Lily

Rebecca Smart

Buster

Lewis Fitz-Gerald

Tony

Lorna Lesley

Marge

Ned Manning

Jim

Madeleine Blackwell

Lucy

Reg Evans

Luke

Julie Hamilton

Bella

Simon Chilvers

Thaddeus