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The Man from Down Under is a american film of genre Drama directed by Robert Z. Leonard released in USA on 4 august 1943 with Charles Laughton

The Man from Down Under (1943)

The Man from Down Under
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Released in USA 4 august 1943
Length 1h42
Directed by
OriginUSA
Genres Drama,    War,    Romance
Rating60% 3.0017153.0017153.0017153.0017153.001715

The Man from Down Under is an American 1943 drama film starring Charles Laughton as a man who raises two war orphans.

It was called "Hollywood's first full-length film dealing exclusively with Australia and Australians".

Synopsis

After the end of World War I, Australian soldier Jocko Wilson (Charles Laughton) admires the spirit of a destitute Belgian orphan who fights a larger boy. He feeds the child, whom he names "Nipper", and the boy's younger sister Mary. When he receives orders to go home, he gets his friend Ginger Gaffney (Clyde Cook) to smuggle the pair aboard their ship. Then, realizing he knows nothing about raising children, he proposes to his singer girlfriend Aggie Dawlins (Binnie Barnes). She accepts. However, he gets drunk and is nearly arrested; in the confusion, he forgets and sails home without her.

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