Gallipoli

August. 28,1981      PG
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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.

Mel Gibson as  Frank Dunne
Mark Lee as  Archy Hamilton
Bill Kerr as  Jack
Harold Hopkins as  Les McCann
Heath Harris as  Stockman
Gerda Nicolson as  Rose Hamilton
Robert Grubb as  Billy
Tim McKenzie as  Barney
David Argue as  Snowy
Reg Evans as  Athletics Official 1

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Reviews

Artivels
1981/08/28

Undescribable Perfection

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Raetsonwe
1981/08/29

Redundant and unnecessary.

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Intcatinfo
1981/08/30

A Masterpiece!

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Bergorks
1981/08/31

If you like to be scared, if you like to laugh, and if you like to learn a thing or two at the movies, this absolutely cannot be missed.

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DylanW
1981/09/01

In 1915, the Gallipoli campaign was commenced. Dictating the Australian version, two young runners, Frank and Archy, enroll in the Australian army, and, as a result, are sent to fight in Gallipoli.The emotional aspect of this film is incredible, due to a great script and performances by Mark Lee and Mel Gibson, who play the two protagonists. With more historical accuracies than inaccuracies, "Gallipoli" is an emotionally heartfelt film, bound to bring a tear to your eye and pull your toughest heart-strings. Mel Gibson is particularly spectacular, as the reluctant youngster soon succumbing to peer pressure.It is debatable whether this is considered a war film to some, as the movie is about Frank and Archy in Gallipoli, and how they are effected by the war, instead of Gallipoli, with many random characters involved. For example, "Gallipoli" is a character film set in the war, whereas "Dunkirk" is a war film with characters.

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Kirpianuscus
1981/09/02

it remains one of the most impressive films about WWI. for the precise portrait of the lost of innocence. for a great picture of friendship. and as sketch about the politics as puppetry of anonymous lives. splendid remains its special freshness. because it is not exactly a film about Gallipoli but about a deep change who kills an entire age, with its perceptions, illusions, desires, naivety. a huge chronicle about survive. maybe, against yourself. and the eulogy to sacrifice for an ideal who lost its virtues.

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goreilly40
1981/09/03

This movie showed a brutally honest depiction of the tragedy that was the fateful Gallipoli campaign. The futility of trench warfare, the grim conditions that the soldiers unfortunate enough to be there had to endure and the sheer ferocity of the Turkish defence were some of the more accurate I've seen in war movies. The fateful Battle of the Nek was a faithful depiction, it shows an Australian Colonel, not a British officer as some think, ordering the the ill-fated attack to continue despite the first waves being massacred within seconds of going over the top which sadly is what happened. The only real issue I had with the movie was the absence of the Royal Welch Fusiliers who also suffered heavy losses at the Nek on that fateful day. The story is compelling and although the two main protagonists are fictional, their story is not too far from the truth, the naive romantic ideals young men at the time had of the war, it would be over by Christmas, it would be a picnic etc, then when the nightmare of reality hit home was again excellently done. The ending is one of the saddest and emotional I've seen when the soldiers know what's coming. All in all this movie is such an honest depiction of a period which some have tried to forget and one to own if your into history and war movies.

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denis888
1981/09/04

Seemed to be a very promising WWI movie about Western Aussies in the terrible battle of Galliopoli in 1915. Yup, and then there is a very young, handsome, energetic Mel Gibson. Aha. And then, a deadly dry (as dry as Aussie wind) boredom creeps in, you feel that dryness in every angle and this horrific Aussie sun heat in every moment and that heat kills every possible entertaining moment the movie could have delivered but failed. The battle? Nope, we saw better films. The characters? Too syrupy and too shallow. The setting? Boring fly-ridden Aussie landscape with nothing to look st. Terribly dry and very dull. This is a waste of time of 120 minutes. Ni redeeming feature in this slow vapid untasty drag.

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