Jack Winter's Dream (1980)

In the Depression-stricken 1930s Jack Winter still tramps the now worked-out goldfields he knew in his prime. 50 years ago. One bitter night he settles down to sleep in the ruins of the Drover's Rest, a derelict inn. He has some premonition that this will be his final sleep. So it is, and in it he dreams the Drover's Rest back to life, and peoples it with figures from the goldrush days.
Jack Winter - Patric Carey
Charlie Bird - Bernard Kearns
Trevelyan - Michael McGrath
Ballarat Jake - Martyn Sanderson
Preaching Lowry - Bill Juliff
The Dane - Norbert Heuser
Jenny Bird - Fiona Lindsay
Wee Scotsman - Anthony Groser
Narrator - Mervyn Thompson
Written by James K. Baxter
Director - David Sims
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