Cinema: All Outdoors

Three new movies set their trivial doings against large landscapes:

Kangaroo (20th Century-Fox), the product of a 9,200-mile location trek, is the first Hollywood movie to be made in Australia. The trip paid off with striking Technicolor scenes that Director Lewis Milestone shot around Sydney and rugged Flinders Range: a cattle stampede in a bushfire, a corroboree rain dance, a blistering dust storm and a slashing bullwhip battle between a couple of bushrangers.

Unfortunately, the trip was not necessary for a plot that is homegrown Hollywood, a handsome bushranger (Peter Lawford), who is wanted by...

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