Black Chook

They were Australia’s bad days. Men killed other men and laughed. All that was left for the children of the dead was to remember. If they had the strength.

Cast

Brendan Cowell

as Jim Bloke

Freda Glynn

as Aunty Cookup

Jack Charles

as Black Ghost

Lynette Curran

as Mrs. Anderson

John Brumpton

Vicki Couzens

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