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Bush Christmas [VHS] | ![Bush Christmas [VHS]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/519NEGPTH4L._SL160_.jpg)
 enlarge | Director: Ralph Smart
Actors: Chips Rafferty, John Fernside, Helen Grieve, Nicky Yardley, Stan Tolhurst
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
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Rating:  9 reviews
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, Ntsc
Language: English (Unknown)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Media: VHS Tape
Discs: 1
Running Time: 80 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.3 x 4.2 x 1.1
ISBN: 0792846591
UPC: 027616852427
EAN: 9780792846598
Theatrical Release Date: 1946
Release Date: September 5, 2000
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 bush christmas February 15, 2010
ronnie b (australia)
i am looking for the 1983 version with John Howard, and Nicole Kidman as one of the children in it. This one is from 1947. great to think it is still available.
 Good little film February 12, 2010
Reviewer1 (Chicago)
I have to warn you, it is NOT very PC (if you care) but it IS a very good little Christmas film very similar to the story, "Ransom of Redchief."
A Great Movie January 26, 2009
Ronald J. Coldbeck (Australia)
I just loved watching the movie. The quality was excellent I grew up with Bush Christmas and as a teacher I used to always read the story to children. Who also loved it.
I understand there has been a more recent version filmed. Is this available through Amazon.com ?
bush christmas November 11, 2008
H. Vennemann
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I saw this film as a 13 year old in Holland, after migrating to Australia saw it several times and enjoyed it, am now 66 years old and still enjoy it
 "Walkabout" for a Pre-Teen and Middle School Audience December 22, 2007
Only-A-Child
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Don't be scared away by the title, "Bush Christmas" (1947) has nothing to do with George W. or his father. They are referring to the Australian "Bush" and this is a children's film that no doubt was a heavy influence on Nicholas Roeg"s "Walkabout" (1971); as well as its source novel by James Vance Marshall. In both a small band of children find themselves in the bush country and out of their element, getting survival tips from a native boy. "A Far Off Place" (1993) and "Alaska" (1996) also appropriated many elements of the story. "Bush Christmas" is the least gritty of the four films but the most believable and the least manipulative.
It should remind the viewer of the modern Australian television show "Saddle Club" as the kids are around horses all the time; even riding them to and from school. And the plot involves Grinch-inspired horse thieves who almost ruin Christmas for the family when they steal their prize mare, leaving her young colt behind. So the five children head into the bush to track down the horse thieves, while their parents and the police search for them. There is even a Ghost Town (also found in "Walkabout") although you have to suspend disbelief when the until now very perceptive children inexplicably take too long to recognize that the horse thieves are its only residents.
Worth noting is that Helen Grieve plays the only girl in this group of adventurous children but there is no condescension to her, she rides better than the boys and takes on a kind of "Wendy" from "Peter Pan" role in the group.
Christmas in the southern hemisphere is a summer event but the holiday is still celebrated with winter wonderland decorations, presents, and a tree.
Then again, what do I know? I'm only a child.
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