| | Breaker Morant DVD
| Category | Foreign Films DVDs, Dramas Movies, Recommended Videos, Classic, War, True Story, Military, Injustice | | Starring | Edward Woodward, Bryan Brown, Jack Thompson, John Waters, III | | Director | Bruce Beresford | | Screenwriter | David Stevens |
Personal revenge or act of war? Crazed soldiers or political scapegoats? This powerful film directed by Bruce Beresford continues to stir audiences with its timeless themes of wartime morality and military hypocrisy. Based on a true story, Edward Woodward unforgettably stars as the controversial folk hero and Renaissance man Lt. Harry 'Breaker' Morant. As South Africa's Boer War draws to a close, Morant and 2 fellow Australian soldiers are court-martialed for murder. Their only hope lies in a small-town lawyer who fights passionately for their lives. Jack Thompson and Bryan Brown costar. Three Australian soldiers, devastated by the death of a friend in battle, strike out against one of the enemy. Because of this act, they become prime suspects when a German missionary mysteriously vanishes.
One of a crop of impressive films to arrive from Australia in the late 1970s and early 1980s, BREAKER MORANT marked Bruce Beresford as a director to watch. Based on a play by Kenneth G. Ross, the film is a tersely dramatic account of the true story of the court-martial of three soldiers attached to the Bushveld Carbineers, a guerrilla warfare unit of the British army that operated during the Boer War (1899-1902). Edward Woodward stars as Lt. Harry "Breaker" Morant, the primus inter pares of this trio that includes Lt. Peter Handcock (Bryan Brown) and Lt. George Witton (Lewis Fitzgerald). Attorney Major J.F. Thomas (Jack Thompson) is given only one day to mount a defense of the officers, who have been charged with the death of Boer prisoners and a German minister. Weaving flashbacks into the trial proceedings, Beresford tells the story of the controversial killing, an act of revenge against the Boers for having killed and mutilated a close friend of Morant's. While the young Witton fears for his life, Morant and Handcock display only a caustically witty stoicism as they await the trial's outcome. Superbly executed in every area, the film is a memorable evocation of the hypocrisy of empire.
Theatrical release: May 16, 1980 (Australia).
BREAKER MORANT was the winner of 10 Australian Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director.
Breaker Morant Reviews: "...Genuinely, surprisingly affecting..."-- Janet Maslin, New York Times Breaker Morant | List Price | $19.98 (You save $4.89) | | Studio | Image Entertainment | | Orig Year | 1980 | | All Time Sales Rank |  21939  | | CD Universe Part number | 7540016 | | Catalog number | 4735 | | Discs | 1 | | Release Date | Jan 15, 2008 | | Rating | PG (MPAA) | | Running Time | 107 Minutes | | Additional Info | Widescreen; Subtitled | | Movie Details | Color; Widescreen; Subtitled |
Breaker Morant Movie Review  A Great Movie
This movie has a great story to tell. Three Australians are charged with murder during the Boer War. The British authorities are eager to show that British jusice is impartial by sacrificing these colonials.
The Australian defense lawyer puts up an unexpectedly good case.
All-in-all, it's a great movie.
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Perhaps the best of my all time top ten movies.
Visual, funny, poignant, beautiful, thought provoking and tragic. It'll take a while to shift gears after seeing it. You'll be thinking about it for many days afterwards. This is an authentic jem.
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This review is for a different format. Touching. sad, yet hauntingly beautiful,
The dialog has the quality of a play, and is a delight to listen to. Everyone in the movie plays his part extremely well. Edward Woodward is strikingly handsome. And the short song he sings "At Last" is splendid. There are not too many actors wich such great trained, singing voice. He is the male version of Julie Andrews.
I don't have a collection of DVDs since I don't watch the same movies too often. Yet I want to buy this one, since I want to watch it over and over again.
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Breaker Morant DVD Personal revenge or act of war? Crazed soldiers or political scapegoats? Winner of 10 Australian Film Institute Awards, this powerful film directed by the Oscar®-nominated Bruce Beresford (Tender Mercies, Driving Miss Daisy) continues to stir audiences with its timeless themes of wartime morality and military hypocrisy.
Based on a true story, Edward Woodward (TV's The Equalizer) unforgettably stars as the controversial folk hero and Renaissance man Lt. Harry "Breaker" Morant. As South Africa's controversial Boer War draws to a close, Morant and two fellow Australian soldiers (Bryan Brown, Lewis Fitzgerald) are court-martialed for murder. Their only hope lies in a small-town lawyer who fights passionately for their lives.
Source: Image Entertainment Inc.
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Anamorphic Widescreen -
1.78
Full Frame -
1.33
Audio:
Dolby Digital
1.0 L/R - English
Subtitles - Spanish - Optional
Additional Release Material:
Trailers: Original 30-Second Radio Spot
Documentary: The Boer War
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