The Man from Down Under (1943)

Directors

Robert Z. Leonard

Cast

André Charlot, Arthur Shields, Binnie Barnes, Charles Laughton, Clyde Cook, Donna Reed, Hobart Cavanaugh, Richard Carlson, Stephen McNally

The story

After the end of World War I, Australian soldier Jocko Wilson (Charles Laughton) admires the spirit of a destitute Belgian orphan who fights a larger boy. He feeds the child, whom he names "Nipper", and the boy's younger sister Mary. When he receives orders to go home, he gets his friend Ginger Gaffney (Clyde Cook) to smuggle the pair aboard their ship.

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