Cirrus@Austlit

In 1937, on a small dairy farm at Nulla Nulla Creek (three hundred miles north of Sydney), an eleven-year-old boy, David Gordon Kirkpatrick, decided to change his name and become a country music star. The Slim Dusty Movie is 'the story of a man who believed in a dream that he had and the woman who stands by his side. The war years when a young boy's hopes of a recording contract are almost dashed forever, the courting days when he meets Joy McKean, the woman he will later marry, the radio shows of Sydney in the late 1940s, the travelling carnival sideshows of the 1950s - the good times, the bad times. For forty years he's been on the road.' (Source: The Slim Dusty Movie soundtrack liner notes)

Filmed over 20,000 kilometres in a variety of rural towns, truck stops, highways, bush tracks, Aboriginal tribal lands, rodeo arenas, and concert halls, the fim combines historical recreations, concert performances, and candid on-the-road footage of Slim Dusty, his family, musicians, and road crew. The biographical aspect celebrates fifty years in the life of a legendary Australian country music artist. The live performances include some of his greatest hits, including 'Where Country Is,' 'Walk a Country Mile,' 'When the Rain Tumbles Down in July,' 'How Will I Go with Him, Mate?,' 'Pushin' Time,' 'Cunnamulla Feller,' 'Lights on the Hill,' and the all-time classic 'The Pub with No Beer.'