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The Battlers is a film of genre Drama directed by George Ogilvie with Gary Sweet
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Add to a movie listThe Battlers is a 1994 Australian mini series about two drifters during the Great Depression.
^ Ed. Scott Murray, Australia on the Small Screen 1970-1995, Oxford Uni Press, 1996 p176
Actors
Gary Sweet
(Snow)
Jacqueline McKenzie
(Dancy Grimshaw)
Marcus Graham
(The Busker)
Anne Phelan OAM
Walter Brown
Don Barker
(Publican)
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