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Wills & Burke (1985)
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Add to a movie listGenres Comedy
Rating46%
Wills & Burke is a 1985 Australian comedy film about the Burke and Wills expedition. It came out the same year as another local film on the same subject, Burke & Wills (1985).
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Burke and Wills travel across Australia but wind up dying.Actors
Garry McDonald
(Robert O'Hara Burke)
Kym Gyngell
(William John Wills)
Nicole Kidman
(Julia Matthews)
Jonathan Hardy
(John Macadam)
Mark Little
(John King)
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