Kangaroo

Richard Connor (Peter Lawford) is a desperate young man in Sydney, Australia, trying to find the money to return home. While staying at a boarding house, he is mistaken by the drunk Michael McGuire for his long-lost son, Dennis, whom McGuire had abandoned to an orphanage as a child. Connor and McGuire pose as his business partners to get on the boat and away to hide out with him in the Outback. Along the way they subtly drop hints that Connor may be his lost son, without letting on that McGuire himself had talked about him, in this way hoping to gain possession of

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Cast
Maureen O'Hara, Peter Lawford

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