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Breaker Morant Cover Image DVD DVD

Breaker Morant [videorecording] / produced by Matthew Carroll ; directed by Bruce Bereford ; screenplay by Jonathan Hardy, Bruce Beresford & David Stevens.

Beresford, Bruce, (film director,, screenwriter.). Brown, Bryan, 1947- (actor.). Thompson, Jack, 1940- (actor.). Waters, John, 1948- (actor.). Woodward, Edward, 1930-2009 (actor.). Ross, Kenneth, 1941- Motion picture adaptation of (work): Breaker Morant. Videorecording. (Added Author). Criterion Collection (Firm), (publisher.). Edward Woodward, Jack Thompson, John Waters, Bryan Brown, Charles Tingwell, Terence Donovan, Rod Mullinar. (Cast).

Summary:

During the Boer war, a champion horse trainer and two other Australian officers are court-martialed for murdering civilians.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781681430508 :
  • ISBN: 715515156813
  • Physical Description: 1 videodisc (circa 107 minutes) : sound, colour ; 4 3/4 inches.
  • Edition: Special edition.
  • Publisher: [United States] : Criterion Collection, [2015]

Content descriptions

General Note:
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.
Creation/Production Credits Note:
Director of photography, Donald McAlpine ; editor, Harold Lander.
Participant or Performer Note:
Edward Woodward, Jack Thompson, John Waters, Bryan Brown, Charles Tingwell, Terence Donovan, Rod Mullinar.
Target Audience Note:
MPAA Rating: PG.
System Details Note:
DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby Digital.
Terms Governing Use and Reproduction Note:
For private home use only.
Language Note:
Subtitled for the deaf and hard of hearing.
Subject: Morant, Breaker, 1865-1902 > Fiction.
Ross, Kenneth, 1941- Breaker Morant > Film adaptations.
Great Britain. Army. Bushveldt Carbineers > Fiction.
Feature films.
South African War, 1899-1902 > Atrocities > Fiction.
Trials (Military offenses) > South Africa > Fiction.

Available copies

  • 1 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium. (Show)
  • 1 of 1 copy available at Innisfil Public Library System. (Show)
  • 1 of 1 copy available at Lakeshore Branch.

Holds

  • 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
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Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Status Due Date
Lakeshore Branch DVD Break 31681002451045 DVD Available -


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