40,000 Horsemen

  • Drama
  • War
12/26/1940
100

THRILLING! BATTLING! LOVING!

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.

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  • Geronimo1967

    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 wasnt as sharp as their lances. Yep, they were horse soldiers in a signals corp who actually still used signals. Its 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 the sides of their rather pompous and arrogant opponents who just assumed that these ex-con colonialists were a symbol of a British empire on its knees and...

    March 26, 2025

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