If Breaker Morant is the Australian Paths of Glory, this is its Charge of the Light Brigade. The method of making us feel the loss is the rather uneconomic one of forcing us to become quite close, over a leisurely and meandering hour and a quarter, to two bright lads whose friendship would appear to be founded on mutual handsomeness and fleetness of foot. With the long-delayed arrival at the Gallipoli battlefront, things finally pick up. The plan of viewing these climactic events as if through the innocent eyes of the rookie soldiers has inspired director Peter Weir to become bristlingly observant and inventive, and it results in a highly watchable last couple of reels. With Mark Lee, Mel Gibson, and Bill Hunter. (1981) — Duncan Shepherd
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