Production company: Hecht-Hill-Lancaster Australiaīudget: n/a, but in an Australian context, relatively high. (For some dialogue from the film noting the kinds of slang used in the film - and with spoilers - see this site's 'about the film' section).Ī United States production part-manufactured in Australia (in the original play, Barney and Roo leave together, the summer prematurely ended and the characters' futures uncertain). She angrily rejects him, but then when she offers Roo a beer in the pub, Roo takes the matter as settled, and Olive smiles nervously through tears. Roo learns that his position as head of the cane-cutting team will be taken by a younger man Dowd (Vincent Ball) and both men begin to realise that they are growing old.Īt story's end, Barney leaves to work with Dowd, and Roo asks Olive to settle down with him in marriage. Olive arranges for a manicurist Pearl (Angela Lansbury) to take her place, but they aren't compatible. Roo has a bad season, money is short, and Barney's partner has got herself married in his absence. Roo has spent the last sixteen years of summer with Olive (Anne Baxter), a barmaid, and each year he brings her a kewpie doll as a symbol of their relationship.īut in the seventeenth summer, things begin to fall apart. Roo (Ernest Borgnine) and Barney (John Mills) are sugar cane-cutters who work during the season north Queensland, and then spend their off season in Sydney.
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