Kangaroo (1952 film)

Kangaroo is a 1952 American Technicolor film directed by Lewis Milestone. It is also known as The Australian Story American subtitle. The first Technicolor movie filmed onlocation in Australia. Strong winds on location forced Milestone to redub much of the exterior dialogue.

An Australian Western set at some vague time perhaps a century ago. Richard Connor Peter Lawford is a desperate young man in Sydney, Australia, trying to find the money to return home. While staying at a boarding house, he is mistaken by the drunk Michael McGuire Finlay Currie for his longlost son, Dennis, whom McGuire had abandoned to an orphanage as a child, a deed for which he now deeply blames himself. Later that night, Connor attempts to rob John Gamble Richard Boone outside a gambling house, but after he finds him equally broke, he is talked into assisting him in robbing the establishment, during which the owner is shot. Connor and Gamble make off with the loot, stopping at the boarding house to get Connors gear, whereupon McGuire, still drunk, pursues his son down the street until he collapses. They find on him information on his extensive station for which he was trying to secure loans in Sydney and his boat ticket, and decide to pose as his business partners to get on the boat and away to hide out with him in the Outback.The next day, the now sober McGuire does not remember anything, and is at first suspicious of them, until he finds he has the 500 they claimed to have paid him for cattle planted on him from the stolen loot. Along the way first by boat, then by horse they subtly drop hints that Connor now calling himself Dennis Connor may be his lost son, without letting on that McGuire himself had talked about him, in this way hoping to gain possession of the station. ........

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