- Edward Woodward, Breaker Morant, Australia, 1979. The Aussie stage star was an early favourite for the titular poet, horseman and convicted Boer War criminal – having played Morant on the 1978 Melbourne stage. The movie’s suits voted for an international name (Alan Bates or Rod Steiger) before director Bruce Beresford won the very British star of the great Callan series, 1967-1972. And Donovan, who’d made Beresford’s Money Movers in 1978, settled for Captain Simon Hunt.
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