Drylanders

Drylanders is a 1963 Canadian film directed by Don Haldane from a screenplay by M. Charles Cohen. It was the National Film Board of Canadas first Englishlanguage feature film.

Drylanders was a fictionalized documentary similar to earlier Frenchlanguage productions from the NFBs Panoramique series and dramas in the Englishlanguage Perspective series. Heavily promoted during its release, the film was modestly successful at the box office.Drylanders came about after a documentary on farming and irrigation in Saskatchewan, suggested by writer Charles Cohen, had been rejected by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Director Donald Haldane then suggested making a fiction film. Cohen wrote a personal story, concentrating on the trials of the Greer family, who had come from Montreal to try their luck at farming. ........

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