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  Format Miniseries
  Runtime 100 minutes
  Starring Sigrid Thornton <br/> John Waters <br/> Parker Stevenson <br/> Charles Tingwell <br/> Adrian Wright <br/> Gus Mercurio
  Country Australia
  Language English
  First Aired 1983
  Num Episodes 4
  Website http://wwwcrawfordscomau/libary/series/rivers_run1shtml
  Imdb Id 0086663


''All The Rivers Run'' is an Australia n Historical Novel by Nancy Cato , first published in 1958 . It was also made into a popular Television Miniseries in 1983 , starring Sigrid Thornton and John Waters . The film is marketed with the tagline ''A sweeping saga of one woman's struggle for survival''.


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''All The Rivers Run'' follows the life of English girl Philadelphia Gordon, from the time when she is shipwrecked and orphaned off the coast of Victoria in 1890 . She spends most of her life around Echuca , on the Murray River , and invests some of her inheritance in a paddle wheeled Riverboat . Her life is forever changed when she meets frontier paddleboat captain Brenton Edwards. Gordon marries Edwards and forgoes her burgeoning career as a photographer to settle down on his farm, which is ravaged by drought during their first year together.


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