Overview
Based on the 1910 novel by Henry Handel Richardson, thought to be an account of her own schooldays at the Presbyterian Ladies College in Melbourne. A young girl, Laura Tweedle-Rambotham who grew up in the outback, and at around the age of 14, is sent off by her poor mother who has scrimped and saved for her to go to a prestigious women’s private college in Melbourne, the Presbyterian Ladies College.
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- August 25, 1977
- Original language
- English
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- Australia
- Production
- Australian Film Commission
- Cast
- Barry Humphries,Sheila Helpmann,Hilary Ryan,Patricia Kennedy,Candy Raymond,Terence Donovan,Kerry Armstrong,Sigrid Thornton,Susannah Fowle,John Waters
- Director
- Bruce Beresford
- Writer
- Eleanor Witcombe
- Producer
- Phillip Adams
- Budget
- Not recorded
- Revenue
- Not recorded
- IMDb
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