
The Squatter's Daughter
Summary
Beneath the blistering cobalt of an Australian high-country sky, two wool empires—Enderby and Waratah—graze their flocks on either side of an invisible fault line of pride. Into this tinder-scape rides the legend-haunted bushranger Ben Hall, whose silver-plated revolvers glitter like judgment day against the sun-bleached grass. Between station ledgers, midnight stampedes, and a squatter’s rebellious daughter who trades crinoline for jodhpurs, ancient hatreds ignite: prize rams are poisoned, dams sabotaged, a wedding dress is stitched from barbed-wire shadows. When Hall’s gang holes up in a shearing shed loft, loyalties shear away faster than fleece; the squatter’s heir must decide whether blood means dynasty or doom, while the daughter’s whip-crack kiss seals a pact with the outlaw that could torch both properties into one vast, ash-sweet pasture of possibility. In the final crimson dusk, two flocks thunder toward a cliff-edge muster, hooves drumming like war-sticks, as Hall’s last bullet sings past the squatter’s ear and into the future of a nation still inventing its own myth.
Synopsis
The plot concerns the rivalry between two neighboring sheep stations, Enderby and Waratah. This version includes the subplot about the bushranger Ben Hall.
Director
Bert Bailey, Olive Wilton, Edmund Duggan, J.H. Nunn
Bert Bailey, Edmund Duggan






