Film historian Andrew Pike will present one of Australia's great film classics, screened in its entirety.

Released in 1946, it's the story of an epic 2000-mile wartime cattle drive from the Top End to the Queensland Coast, part of a scorched earth' strategy to remove food supplies from the reach of Japanese invaders. Directed by Harry Watt, it made an international star of Chips Rafferty and established his ‘bushman’ image. John Ireland's dramatic music score has garnered a reputation of its own, and Australia's outback was revealed to a global audience.

Following the screening, Andrew will conduct a Q&A session.

16mm print from the NFSA.