Drylanders poster

The National Film Board's First Feature Length Presentation

Drylanders

6.5 / 10 6.5 1962 1h 9m

DramaFamilyWestern

The epic story of the opening of the Canadian West and the drought that brought the Depression in the thirties. This is the saga of a family who left eastern Canada to stake their future in the Prairies.

Directed by Don Haldane

CAST

The people behind the story

Frances Hyland

Frances HylandLiza

James B. Douglas

James B. DouglasDan (as James Douglas)

—

Lester NixonBob MacPherson

—

Mary SavidgeAda MacPherson (as Mary Savage)

William Fruet

William FruetColin (as William Fruete)

Don Francks

Don FrancksRussel

—

Ernest HuberMan in boxcar

—

William WeintraubNarrator