''We of the Never Never'' is pleasant, albeit to a fault, and its actors are prim and decorous in a manner that, once again, will satisfy children more than it does anyone else. And the film, in depicting Jeannie's relations with the aborigines, celebrates her open-mindedness with a pride that's dated and unseemly. But otherwise, little of interest goes on. There is adventure here: (Jeannie being dunked in a river Jeannie being treed by a bull) that children will enjoy, and the scenery is unusual. It's a film of far more anthropological than dramatic interest, since much of the action involves aboriginal characters, and since it was filmed in the thinly settled region Mrs. If ''We of the Never Never'' sounds simple, old-fashioned and as suffocatingly noble as its heroine, it is. But Jeannie showed she could be a good sport, and she adapted to the demands of her new life, and everybody loved her. The men, in particular, were suspicious of Jeannie Gunn, thinking she would change their rugged life with her ladylike ways. The inhabitants of the area were aborigines and white cattlemen, with neither group accustomed to having a white woman in residence. ''WE OF THE NEVER NEVER'' is based on a memoir by Jeannie Gunn, who in 1902 accompanied her husband, Aeneas, from Melbourne, Australia, to the remote Northern Territory, where he became the new manager of the Elsey cattle station.
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