Word: rouseabout
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...hero (Robert Mitchum) is a sundowner, the Aussie equivalent of a rolling stone, who drifts from bush town to bush town, job to job, while his wife (Deborah Kerr) urges him to save up, buy a farm and settle down. To keep peace, he takes a job as a "rouseabout" in a shearing shed. But as soon as he has some savings, he nicks off and goes broke in a game of two-up. So it's back to drifting, and though the life is rough as bags, the wife has to admit that she likes...
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