Inland with Sturt

The parts of Charles Sturt and George Macleay were performed by two professional actors, Grant Taylor and Rod Taylor.{{cite magazine|url=https://www.filmink.com.au/unsung-aussie-filmmakers-grant-taylor-top-ten/|magazine=Filmink|first=Stephen|last=Vagg|date=29 July 2019|title=Unsung Aussie Filmmakers – Grant Taylor: A Top Ten}} Several officers from Duntroon played the men who travelled with them.[http://www.dunsoc.com/Newsletter-web/1-2001-web.pdf/ Inland with Sturt] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110215213301/http://www.dunsoc.com/Newsletter-web/1-2001-web.pdf |date=15 February 2011 }} at The Duntroon Society April 2001

The expedition took several weeks, travelling from Sydney to Adelaide. The crew travelled by road to the town of Maude, then entered the Murrumbidgee River in a whaleboat and went by water to Goolwa, after which they drove to Adelaide. All the time they wore 1830 period costume.

An extensive support crew accompanied the whaleboat from land, including Talbot Duckmanton and a team from ABC radio who would present a nightly report. The trip was also covered extensively by local media and seen by an estimated 300,000 people along the way.Stephen Vagg, Rod Taylor: An Aussie in Hollywood, Bear Manor Media, 2010 p30.

Inland with Sturt marked the first film appearance for Rod Taylor, who, although he played George Macleay, was actually related to Charles Sturt through his father; he was Sturt's great-great-grandnephew. He was cast only after the original choice for his role, Charles Tingwell, pulled out to act in Kangaroo (1952).Stephen Vagg, Rod Taylor: An Aussie in Hollywood, Bear Manor Media, 2010 p31.

• Grant Taylor as Captain Charles Sturt
• Rod Taylor as George Macleay
• Pat Trost
• Ian Gilmore
• Roy Pugh
• Captain Jim Laughlin
• Ron Wells
• Brien Forward

ABC Weekly said "All the little, intimate details of crew personalities and incident had to be sacrificed because there was notime to dwell on them, and these are the very things that would have lifted the to a more engrossing level. Still, some good effects have been achieved, and Frank Bagnall’s camera has managed... to capture the initial virginity and loneliness of the country Sturt and his men rowed or sailed past."{{Citation

| author1=Australian Broadcasting Commission.

| title=INLAND WITH STURT AND A FILM ON BROADCASTING

| journal=ABC Weekly

| date=4 August 1951

| location=Sydney

| publisher=ABC

| url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-1549717750

| id=nla.obj-1549717750

| access-date=21 April 2024

| via=Trove

}}

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• {{IMDb title|id=1810653|title=Inland with Sturt}}
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20120317130011/http://www.dunsoc.com/Newsletter-web/2-2000-web.pdf Inland with Sturt Part 1] and [https://web.archive.org/web/20110215213301/http://www.dunsoc.com/Newsletter-web/1-2001-web.pdf Inland with Sturt Pt 2] at The Duntroon Society Newsletter November 2000 and April 2001.
• [http://colsearch.nfsa.gov.au/nfsa/search/display/display.w3p;adv=;group=;groupequals=;holdingType=;page=22;parentid=;query=Person%3A%22%2FPerson%2Fkey%2F25720-1%22;querytype=;rec=7;resCount=10 Inland with Sturt] at National Film and Sound Archive
• [http://rodtaylorsite.com/sturtexpedition.shtml Inland with Sturt] at The Rod Taylor Site

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