<P> Mrs. Appleyard tells Sara that, as her guardian has not paid her tuition, Sara must return to the orphanage . Afterwards, Mrs. Appleyard lies to Mlle . de Poitiers and claims that Sara's guardian collected her early that morning . The next morning, Sara's body is found in the greenhouse by Mr. Whitehead, the school gardener . Believing Sara committed suicide by leaping from her bedroom window, Whitehead confronts Mrs. Appleyard, who is calm in full mourning dress with her possessions packed . Michael tells Albert he has decided to travel north, with Albert revealing he had a dream in which his lost sister Sara visited him . </P> <P> During a flashback to the picnic scene, Sgt . Bumpher states in a voice over that the body of Mrs. Appleyard was found at the base of Hanging Rock from an apparent suicide . The search for the missing schoolgirls and Miss McCraw continued sporadically for several years without success . Their disappearance is left as an unsolved mystery . </P> <Ul> <Li> Anne - Louise Lambert as Miranda St. Clare </Li> <Li> Rachel Roberts as Mrs. Appleyard </Li> <Li> Dominic Guard as Michael Fitzhubert </Li> <Li> Helen Morse as Mlle . de Poitiers </Li> <Li> Margaret Nelson as Sara Waybourne </Li> <Li> John Jarratt as Albert Crundall </Li> <Li> Wyn Roberts as Sgt . Bumpher </Li> <Li> Karen Robson as Irma Leopold </Li> <Li> Christine Schuler as Edith Horton </Li> <Li> Jane Vallis as Marion Quade </Li> <Li> Vivean Gray as Miss McCraw </Li> <Li> Martin Vaughan as Ben Hussey </Li> <Li> Kirsty Child as Miss Lumley </Li> <Li> Jacki Weaver as Minnie </Li> <Li> Frank Gunnell as Mr. Whitehead </Li> <Li> Tony Llewellyn - Jones as Tom </Li> <Li> John Fegan as Doc . McKenzie </Li> <Li> Kay Taylor as Mrs. Bumpher </Li> <Li> Peter Collingwood as Col. Fitzhubert </Li> <Li> Garry McDonald as Const . Jones </Li> <Li> Olga Dickie as Mrs. Fitzhubert </Li> <Li> Jenny Lovell as Blanche </Li> </Ul> <Li> Anne - Louise Lambert as Miranda St. Clare </Li>

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