Overview

Jamie Carr is a young man growing up in Bundaberg, Northern Queensland during the closing years of World War I. Jamie, who is in his final year of high school, was brought up by his grandmother. Grandma Carr is known and loved by all in the town, and does her best to help Jamie through the emotional turmoil of adolescence and a society struggling under old traditions and beliefs in a new country.

Genres

Cast

Geraldine Fitzgerald

Grandma Carr

Robert Helpmann

Professor

Christopher Pate

Jamie Carr

Gerard Kennedy

Preacher Jones

Gloria Dawn

Pearl

Carol Burns

Maudie Plover

Diane Craig

Miss Pringle

Maggie Millar

Laura Montague

Gerry Duggan

Scanlon

Terry McDermott

Somers

Jonathan Hardy

Joe Speight

Gary Day

Constable McHendry