Das Land ohne Frauen

A group of 413 women answer an ad looking for British women to sail to and marry miners in Australia. One does not survive the voyage, and conflict arises over who will have to remain unmarried.

Cast

Conrad Veidt

as Dick Ashton

Elga Brink

as Evelyne Narnheim

Clifford McLaglen

as Steve Parker

Grete Berger

Mathias Wieman

Ernö Verebes

as O’Donegan

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