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Incl. Georgia Lee (Kathy Prince), Dick Jones (Bob Prince), Jimmy Little (Johnny), Marcia Hathaway (Panny), Ken Fraser (Stockman), Vaughan Tracey (Dr Cornell), Hugh Sanders, Maurice Manson, Orville Sherman.
Release Dates:
9 October 1960 (Madison Square Garden, New York). First released in Australia on 17 August 1961 (Liberty Theatre, Sydney) as a support feature.
Location:
Shot mostly on location in New South Wales, with a few additional scenes produced in Hollywood.
Notes:
1. World Wide Pictures was the motion picture arm of Billy Graham's Evangelistic Association. Dick Ross, the company's president and a well-known Hollywood stuntman and cowboy actor, co-wrote the screenplay with Sydney-based novelist and publicist John Ford. Ross and co-star Georgia Lee were also active in Hollywood Christian groups as well as film production, with Lee regarded as "the First Lady of Motion Picture Evangelism.'
2. The musical score, written by Ralph Carmichael, included two additional songs: 'Shadow of the Boomerang' (Ken Taylor and Hal Saunders), sung by Aboriginal singer Jimmy Little (in his first film role), and 'Return' (Ralph Carmichael), which was sung by Georgia Lee (Celluloid Heroes p. 35).
