"Sooner or later it runs to murder"
During World War 2, a farmer in New Zealand murders seven people. The police, along with local Maori trackers, hunt him in the bush country.
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Stan Graham
Dorothy Graham
Ted Best
Doreen Bond
Les North
Trev Bond
Tommo Robson
Bert Cropp
Henry Growcott
George Lindsay
Greg Hutchison
Maxi Coulson
Anker Madsen
Ralph Frederic
Inspector Calwell
Macko Hager
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