Dead Men Running
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Based onDead Men Running
by D'arcy Niland
by D'arcy Niland
Written by
- Eric Tayler
- Harold Lander
Directed byEric Tayler
Starring
| Dead Men Running | |
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| Based on | Dead Men Running by D'arcy Niland |
| Written by |
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| Directed by | Eric Tayler |
| Starring | |
| Country of origin | Australia |
| Original language | English |
| No. of episodes | 6 |
| Production | |
| Camera setup | Lloyd Shiels[1] |
| Running time | 35 mins |
| Original release | |
| Network | ABC |
| Release | 10 February – 18 March 1971 |
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.[2]
The Age said it was "cast in the mould of My Brother Jack."[3]
The adventures of an Irish migrant in an Australian country town in World War One.
Cast
- 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
Production
Filming started in August 1970 in Gulgong, New South Wales.[4]