Winners & Losers: After the Depression

Bill Morrison is a man on a mission. His wife and child can't walk nearly as fast. As the trio head toward the mining settlement where a new job awaits, Bill is about to react in different ways to two very different surprises — one from his wife, and one at the mine. This half-hour drama from the Winners & Losers series is based on a Maurice Shadbolt story, which later fed into Shadbolt's decade-in-the-making novel Strangers and Journeys. Singer turned advertising veteran Clyde Scott plays Bill. Actor and public speaking expert Jane Thomas John plays the nameless, long-suffering wife. 

It is a hard, uncompromising story about an uncompromising man. This is, incidentally, one of the reasons why the cutting style in the film works. It is a very hard cutting style on a very hard character.

– Director Roger Donaldson in 1977 Department of Education booklet After the Depression - Shooting Script

Key Cast & Crew

Maurice Shadbolt

Original Author

Clyde Scott

As: Bill Morrison

Jane Thomas John (née Dyver)

As: Wife

Roger Donaldson

Director, Producer

Ian Mune

Producer

Arthur Baysting

Writer