"You haven't been to the movies until you've seen..."
A man, his son and a piano player travel around Australia showing the first silent movies
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John Meillon
Maurice 'Pop' Pym
Rod Taylor
Palmer
John Ewart
Freddie Graves
Judy Morris
Miss Lockhart
Garry McDonald
Lou
Harold Hopkins
Larry
Jeanie Drynan
Mrs Duncan
Sally Conabere
Lucy
Patrick Cargill
Fitzwilliam
Jelena Žigon
Madame Cavalli (as Yelena Zignon)
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