40,000 Horsemen

Dec 26, 1940

1h 40m

★ 5.6

THRILLING! BATTLING! LOVING!

Overview

Charles Chauvel's 1940 cinematic tribute to the mounted troops of the Australian Light Horse regiments is a rousing call to arms, giving life to the heroic tales of mateship during the Great War.

Genres

Drama

War

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Cast

Red Gallagher

Grant Taylor

Juliet Rouget

Betty Bryant

Jim

Chips Rafferty

Larry

Pat Twohill

Scotty

Joe Valli

Von Hausen

Harvey Adams

Von Schiller

Eric Reiman

Sheik Abu

Albert C. Winn

German Officer

Kenneth Brampton

Captain Gordon

John Fleeting

Paul Rouget

Harry Abdy

Ismet

Norman Maxwell

Set in northern Australia before World War II, an English aristocrat who inherits a sprawling ranch reluctantly pacts with a stock-man in order to protect her new property from a takeover plot. As the pair drive 2,000 head of cattle over unforgiving landscape, they experience the bombing of Darwin by Japanese forces firsthand.

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