High Country (film)

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High Country
Directed byBill Hughes
Written byIan Bradley
Produced byPeter Herbert
Starring John Waters
Tom Oliver
Terry Serio
Simone Buchanan
Production
company
PBL Productions
Distributed byNine Network (TV)
Release date
1983
Running time
91 mins
CountryAustralia
LanguageEnglish

High Country is a 1983 Australian film about a cattleman turned racehorse owner. [1]

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  1. Ed. Scott Murray, Australia on the Small Screen 1970-1995, Oxford Uni Press, 1996 p80