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The Lighthorsemen [VHS] [1988]

VHS ~ Peter Phelps

3.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)

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Actors: Peter Phelps, Nick Waters, John Larking, John Heywood, Di O'Connor
Directors: Simon Wincer
Format: Dolby, PAL, Surround Sound
Classification: PG
Studio: Entertainment Today Ltd.
Run Time: 110 minutes

Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)

ASIN: B00008T7BY
Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 8,881 in Video (See Bestsellers in Video)

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Set in 1917 during the British campaign in Palestine, this is the true and epic story of the 800 young Australian horsemen who obey the seemingly impossible order to gallop their horses across 3 miles of open desert into shell-bursts and deadly machine-gun crossfire.

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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Australia will be there, 10 Jan 2004

By	C. J. Husing "fact275" (California United States) - See all my reviews (TOP 500 REVIEWER) (REAL NAME)

The Australian Light Horse are about as quintessential as any other aspect of that nation's military history and this film does great justice to them. Many of the characters are based on real historical personages and most grow on you in the short time they are presented--quite an achievement for a film that runs under 2 hours. Fans of the Australian TV miniseries ANZACS will enjoy seeing Tony Bonner, Jon Blake, and Bill Kerr once again portraying WWI Aussie soldiers. If there is any complaint is that the movie was too short--focusing primarily on the British/Australian/New Zealander attack on Beersheeba. Given another 45 minutes or so, the rich characters could have been fleshed out more.

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4.0 out of 5 stars "They're under the guns!", 1 Dec 2003

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This is a brilliant film depicting Australia's immense courage during the first world war. The strained relationship with the British allies adds a balance of humour to this tragic story. The closing scenes have to be viewed in full dolby surround (as loud as possible), the thunder of the hooves, the winding of the guns... Awesome.

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3.0 out of 5 stars Cliched, but impressively mounted, 27 Nov 2007

By	Trevor Willsmer (London, England) - See all my reviews (TOP 50 REVIEWER)

This review is from: The Lighthorsemen [1987] (REGION 2) (PAL) [Dutch Import] [DVD] [1988] (DVD)

The Lighthorseman was a film I hated when I saw it years ago, but which I was overly harsh about. It's not a great film by a long shot, but it is extremely well directed by Simon Wincer in the days when he was the go-to guy for anything with horses, extremely well edited and quite beautifully photographed by Dean Semler in vivid colour. Retelling the Australian Light Horse's famous charge on Beersheba in WW1, the subject of the earlier and generally superior propaganda picture 40,000 Horsemen, it desperately wants to be another Gallipoli, but despite lavish production values is let down by a script that covers the history well enough but doesn't give us particularly well-drawn characters to care about - the mates the film focuses on may well be based on real people, but they play as pure stereotypes. As a result there's not much emotional pull. Indeed, the most touching scene is when Sigrid Thornton fakes a letter to a non-existent soldier to add a touch of credibility to some false documents to be 'captured' by the Turks. However, the pre-CGI carnage of the final charge is genuinely impressive stuff and well worth waiting for.

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