Anzacs - The War Down Under (1985)
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Anzacs: The War Down Under is a two-part Australian TV movie dramatizing the activities of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC). This all-volunteer outfit fought shoulder to shoulder with enlisted men during the First World War. The film concentrates on three Anzacs: An aristocrat… More Anzacs: The War Down Under is a two-part Australian TV movie dramatizing the activities of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC). This all-volunteer outfit fought shoulder to shoulder with enlisted men during the First World War. The film concentrates on three Anzacs: An aristocrat (Andrew Clarke), his best friend (Mark Hembrow) and his friend's sister (Megan Williams). Part One details the training of the volunteers, and their first taste of true combat. Part Two details the further activities of the all-volunteer Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZACS). During the first few months of World War I, aristocratic Anzac Andrew Clarke is wounded, and is urged to go home to convalesce by Megan Williams, the sister of his best friend (Mark Hembrow). Meanwhile, heavy fighting in France has thinned the ranks and battered the morale of the other Anzacs. Featured in the cast as a military man is Paul Hogan. It was Hogan's new-found international stardom in 1986's Crocodile Dundee which sparked the American distribution of Anzacs, two years after its initial 1985 Australian run. The video release is edited from the 10-hour Australian miniseries. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Directed By
- George Miller
- Genres
- Drama, Action & Adventure
Unrated,
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Clint Morris, Moviehole
plays remarkably well with it's soldier tales intertwined with the lives left behind scenario.
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Cast
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Jon Blake
as Flanagan
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Tony Bonner
as Harold Armstrong
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David Bradshaw
as Keith Murdoch
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Shane Briant
as "Kaiser" Schidt
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Andrew B. Clark
as Martin Barrington
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Andrew Clarke
as Martin Barrington
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Christopher Cummins
as Roly Collins
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Mark Hembrow
as Dick Baker
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Jim Holt
as "Dingo" Gordon
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Rhys McConnochie
as David Lloyde George
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Megan Williams
as Kate Baker
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Rod Hewitt
as Bayonet Major
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Paul Hogan
as Pat Cleary
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Edgar Michael Bravo
as Machine Gun Capt
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Alec Wilson
as "Pudden" Parsons
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Edmund Pegge
as Capt. Young
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Noel Travarthen
as Sir Douglas Haig
