The Remittance Man

A sun-scorched morality play set in the blistering outback, The Remittance Man trails a tarnished English aristocrat—played with twitching desperation by George Bryant—who has been shipped to the colonies on the condition that his monthly allowance keeps flowing only so long as he stays vanished from the family crest. Roy Redgrave’s leering bushranger and Godfrey Cass’s granite-jawed squatter become the twin poles of a colonial purgatory: one offers lawless camaraderie, the other the mirage of landed respectability. Between dust-swirl foot-chases, campfire confessions, and a climactic stampede across a salt-crusted lake that turns the screen into a white-hot reflector of guilt, the film strips its anti-hero down to raw, repentant sinew—then asks whether redemption can ever be more than another imperial transaction.