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A romance of the Burke and Wills Expedition: 1918: Charles Byer Coates: Silent film. Antipodes Films and Austral Photoplay Company Ltd. The cast included Charles Clarke as Burke, George Patterson as Wills, Chris Olsen as King, Bias Kotes as Brahe, Melville Stevenson as Dost Mahommed and David Eddleston as Eades.
The film starts at Hever Castle in Kent, England in 1854 as Wills races through a hedge maze and gets lost, an omen for his future fate, and providing a segue into Burke and Wills baking in the desert, with the long suffering Charley Gray (Ralph Cotterill) and the eventual sole survivor of the advance party of four, John King (Matthew Farger).
In 1861, explorers Robert O'Hara Burke (Jack Thompson) and William John Wills (Nigel Havers) lead the first colonial expedition to cross the barren center of the Australian continent. The brash ...
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Wills & Burke is a film directed by Bob Weis with Garry McDonald, Kim Gyngell, Peter Collingwood, Nicole Kidman .... Year: 1985. Original title: Wills & Burke.
Several Relief Expeditions were mounted during 1861-2 and these found traces of the Burke and Wills Expedition. Alfred Howitt found the bodies of Burke and Wills and discovered the sole survivor, John King. He dug up their note-books and maps at the Dig Tree and returned them to Melbourne. He marked and mapped Wills' grave, Burke's grave and ...
Download this episode or listen online. The Burke and Wills Expedition – Part 5 – Across Australia. The first episode in the series provides background to the endeavor – which was an expedition to cross Australia in 1860-61. We are introduced to the organizers of the expedition – Royal Society of Victoria – and its eventual leader ...
21 ago 2022 · A story based on true events about two explorers on a doomed journey trying to cross Australia on foot in the 19 century.
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