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Bush Christmas is a film of genre Comedy directed by Ralph Foster Smart released in USA on 26 november 1947 with Chips Rafferty
Bush Christmas (1947)
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Add to a movie listBush Christmas is a 1947 Australian–British comedy film directed by Ralph Smart and starring Chips Rafferty. It was one of the first movies from Children's Entertainment Films, later the Children's Film Foundation.
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In the Australian countryside, five children are best friends, including a set of siblings, an English war evacuee, and aboriginal Neza. They boast to three strangers, Long Bill, Jim and Blue, about the mare belonging to the father of one of them. The next day the mare has gone. Suspecting the three men of stealing it, the children set off to recover it.Actors
Chips Rafferty
(Long Bill)
John McCallum
(Narrator (voice))
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