Breaker Morant
2015
DVD
During the Boer war, a champion horse trainer and two other Australian officers are court-martialed for murdering civilians.
Item Details
ISBN:
- 9781681430508
- 1681430509
Edition: Special edition.
Description:
- 1 videodisc (circa 107 minutes) : sound, colour ; 4 3/4 inches.
- polychrome
- digital optical surround Dolby Digital
- video file DVD video region 1
Target Audience Note:
- MPAA Rating: PG.
- CHVR: Not rated.
Notes:
- Based on the play by Kenneth Ross.
- Originally released as a motion picture in 1980.
- Special features: audio commentary from 2004 featuring Beresford; New interviews with Beresford, cinematographer Donald McAlpine, and actor Bryan Brown ; Interview with actor Edward Woodward from 2004 ; New piece about the Boer War with historian Stephen Miller ; The Breaker, a 1973 documentary profiling the real Harry "Breaker" Morant, with a 2010 statement by its director, Frank Shields ; trailer ; Plus: an essay by film scholar Neil Sunyard.
- Director of photography, Donald McAlpine ; editor, Harold Lander.
- Edward Woodward, Jack Thompson, John Waters, Bryan Brown, Charles Tingwell, Terence Donovan, Rod Mullinar.
- DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby Digital.
- For private home use only.
- Subtitled for the deaf and hard of hearing.
Publisher or Distributor Number:
- CC2532D
- CC2532D
- CC2532D-1
- CC2532D-2
Control Number: 1528770
UPC:
- 715515156813
- 715515156813
Series:
Subjects:
- Feature films.
- Great Britain. Army. Bushveldt Carbineers -- Fiction.
- Morant, Breaker, 1864?-1902 -- Fiction.
- Ross, Kenneth, 1941- Breaker Morant -- Film adaptations.
- South African War, 1899-1902 -- Atrocities -- Fiction.
- Trials (Military offenses) -- South Africa -- Fiction.
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