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MPAA Rating: NR Content Advisory: Excellent For Children Movie Release: 1947 DVD Release: 11/08/2005 Format: DVD - Black and White - Closed Captioned Audio Tracks: English Subtitles: English, French SwapaDVD Credits: 1 Number of Discs: 1 Run Time: 1 hrs 17 mins Studio: MGM Total Copies: 1 Genres: Adventure, Children's/Family, Family-Oriented Adventure, Traditional Western

The thoroughly entertaining Bush Christmas can be described as an Australian western, albeit with a juvenile slant (indeed, it was produced on behalf of J. Arthur Rank's Children's Cinema Club). Set in the mountains of New South Wales, the story concerns a family of Australian kids who are heading homeward for the Christmas holidays. En route, they unwittingly provide the information which enables a band of thieves to steal their father's horses. Deciding to set things right on their own, the children head into the Blue Mountains to track down the thieves, relying on Aborginal survival skills to keep themselves going. Told in a refreshingly noncondescending fashion, the story is perfectly capable of entertaining children and adults alike-and as a box-office bonus, the nominal star is the popular Chips Rafferty, playing a misleading likeable horse rustler. Though initially released in England in June of 1947, Bush Christmas has since become a TV Yuletide perennial throughout the English-speaking world; the film was adequately remade in 1983. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Chips Rafferty - Long Bill
John Fernside - Jim
Stan Tolhurst - Blue
Pat Penny - Father
Thelma Grigg - Mother