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A Waltz Through the Hills is a film of genre Drama with Dan O'Herlihy

A Waltz Through the Hills (1988)

A Waltz Through the Hills
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Length 1h59
Genres Drama,    Adventure
Rating69% 3.4759853.4759853.4759853.4759853.475985

A Waltz Through The Hills is a 1988 television movie based on A Waltz Through the Hills by Gerald Glaskin. It is the story of two orphaned children who run away from their home in the West Australia outback to go to Perth so they can sail to England to live with their grandparents. It was shown on Wonderworks in the United States



^ Ed. Scott Murray, Australia on the Small Screen 1970-1995, Oxford Uni Press, 1996 p160

Synopsis

In Wyanilling, Western Australia in 1954, 11-year-old Andy Dean and his 5-year-old sister, Sammy live at a hotel run by Burt and Molly Thompson. The children are good friends with Tom, the caretaker at the hotel. One day word comes that their mother who had gone to the hospital for an operation, has died, leaving Andy and Sammy orphans. Molly Thompson wants to adopt them, but her husband does not. Andy overhears a conversation in which he learns if he and Sammy are sent to an orphanage, they’ll be split up. Andy decides they should run away to Perth and take a ship to their grandparents in England. Carrying out his plan the two children get a ride to the next town and walk even further, The police and Tom start looking for them.

Actors

Dan O'Herlihy

(Uncle Tom)Ernie Dingo

(Frank Smith)Michael Carman

(Sergeant Rawling)
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