Dead Men Running
1971 Australian TV series or program
Dead Men Running is a 1971 Australian mini series based on the final novel by D'Arcy Niland about the effect in Australia of the political troubles in Ireland early in the twentieth century.
The Age said it was "cast in the mould of My Brother Jack."
01Premise
The adventures of an Irish migrant in an Australian country town in World War One.
02Cast
- Ewen Solon as Starkey Moore
- Brendon Lunney as Emmett
- Diane Craig as Tessa Doherty
- Stewart Ginn
- John Fegan as Martin Walsh
- Bernadette Hughson as Prostitute
- Peter Gwynne
- Peter Reynolds
- Irene Inescourt
- Michael Boddy
- Don Crosby
- Moya O’Sullivan
- Max Cullen
- Graham Rouse
- Tom Farley
- Harry Lawrence
- John Armstrong
- Robert McDarra
- Chips Rafferty
- Ruth Cracknell
- Slim de Grey
- Doreen Warburton
03Production
Filming started in August 1970 in Gulgong, New South Wales.
04Reception
The Sun Herald said "what a first class piece it turned out to be."
Sources and credits
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