
Candy
2006


“THRILLING! BATTLING! LOVING!”
8 votes
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.
Director
Charles ChauvelWriters
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This is quite a poignant take on a story of three young Australian lads who joined the Allied forces during the Great War and ended up serving in a Middle East replete with Bosch, scheming and plotting locals and a British high command that sadly wasn’t as sharp as their lances. Yep, they were horse soldiers in a signals corp who actually still used signals. It’s “Red” (Grant Taylor) who leads this band of irreverent and outwardly undisciplined “individuals” but as the lively vernacular gives way to some courageous and shrewd wartime activities, they soon prove to be more than a small thorn in…
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