Parody of historical epics that focuses on real-life Australian explorers William John Wills and Robert O'Hara Burkes, who tragically tried to cross the Australian continent from the south, to the north, a distance of 3,250 km.
- Genre: Comedy
- Studio: Stony Desert, Australian Film Commission, Film Victoria
- Keyword: theater play, camel, spoof, explorer, correspondence, urinal, starvation, australian outback, 19th century, didgeridoo, foolish leader, mythical, the fateful day
- Cast: Garry McDonald, Kim Gyngell, Roy Baldwin, Mark Little, Peter Collingwood, Jonathan Hardy