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Skillful director Brian Beresford, a luminous ensemble of Australian actors, and the very talented English actor, Edward Woodward, came together in South Australia in 1979 to shoot one of Australia’s finest films…a war time courtroom drama that excels in acting, myth, script and cinematography.

Released at a time when the Australian film industry was on the verge of a world wide surge of interest with many other aesthetic films (Inflamed Max 1979, Gallipoli 1981 etc.) ….”Breaker Morant” site a benchmark for quality drama.

In the midst of the Boer War, three members of the Bushveldt Carboniers…Harry Morant, Peter Handcock & George Witton stand accused of the destroy of Boer prisoners and a German missionary.

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The men become the subject of a British court martial and it soon becomes clearly evident that they are mere pawns in a far greater diplomatic agenda between warring nations. The film closely tackles the issues of trialling soldiers for destroy in times of war…and the differing interpretations of the orders recieved from senior officers.

Jack Thompson is outstanding as defence attorney, Major J.F. Thomas, attempting to effect the lives of the trio. A youthful Bryan Brown is very memorable as the wild, simple larrikan, Peter Handcock…and Edward Woodward, in a intriguing and mighty performance plays the role of the horse breaker-cum-soldier, Harry Hardboard Morant. Add a unbelievable help cast including eminent Australian actors Charles ‘Bud’ Tingwell, Alan Cassell, John Waters and Chris Haywood…and it’s easy to peruse why this film garnished several key AFI awards upon it’s release, and remains so highly regarded amongst critics and fans alike.

An lustrous, tantalizing and opinion provoking film “Breaker Morant” will be savoured by those who indulge in intense, captivating historical drama’s. Highly Recommended!!

“Breaker Morant” is best military courtroom drama available on videotape and not impartial because it is based on a upright account. Unlike “The Caine Mutiny” or “A Few Honorable Men,” the trial takes up most of the film, with events depicted in flashbacks. Also, the defendants are innocent of (most of) the charges against them. Harry “Breaker” Morant (played by a calm unknown Edward Woodward years before “The Equalizer”) led a group of Australian horse soldiers who had to deal with guerillas during the Boer War. Because the British government wishes to negotiate a peace, Morant and two of his officers are charged with various violations of military law the most indispensable being the execution of Boer prisoners. Leaving nothing to chance, the British exclaim gives the defendants an Australian lawyer to defend them who has never been in a courtroom; however, the man is inexperienced, he is not tedious. It is sure to everyone that the trial is a sham. This is why “Breaker Morant” has more in favorite with “Gallipoli,” another Australian film about British disdain for their subjects from that colony continent.

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“Breaker Morant” was directed by Bruce Beresford, who along with Jonathan Hardy and David Stevens was nominated for an Oscar for Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium for adapting Kenneth G. Ross’ stage play. This movie also had one of the best trailers I have ever seen and it is impossible to forget Woodward’s screech declaring, “We were out on the veldt fighting the Boer the procedure the Boer fought us.” Bryan Brown plays one of the other defendants, but this is Woodward’s film even when he is reduced to doing nothing more than sitting in his chair and letting the farce plays itself out to the raze (Do not ask me to define why it was Thompson and not Woodward who won the Australian Film Institute’s award for Best Actor in a Drama that year) . The conclusion of the film is simple yet powerful: we ogle the final scene listening to the last poem written by Morant and then Woodward singing a British military song that hammers home the irony of the film.
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