• StatusReleased
  • Release Date1981-08-13
  • Runtime112 minutes
  • TaglineFrom a place you never heard of...a story you'll never forget.
  • Revenue11,700,000$
  • GenreWar, History, Drama
  • Production
    CompaniesR & R Films, Australian Film Commission
  • Budget3,000,000$

Movie Overview

As World War I rages, brave and youthful Australians Archy and Frank—both agile runners—become friends and enlist in the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps together. They later find themselves part of the Dardanelles Campaign on the Gallipoli peninsula, a brutal eight-month conflict which pit the British and their allies against the Ottoman Empire and left over 500,000 men dead.

Casts

Mel Gibson

Mark Lee

Bill Kerr

Harold Hopkins

Heath Harris

Gerda Nicolson

Robert Grubb

Tim McKenzie

David Argue

Reg Evans

Steve Dodd

Harold Baigent

Robyn Galwey

John Murphy

Bill Hunter

Peter Ford

Don Barker

Paul Sonkkila

Leslie Dayman