The Odd Angry Shot

The Odd Angry Shot (DVD) (*)

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Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
English ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Australia ( PAL/Region 4 )

Running Time:
88 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.85:1)

Special Features:
Biographies
Commentary
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Trailer(s)

Movie filmed in 1979 and produced in:
Australia ( Australia, New Zealand )

Directed By:
Tom Jeffrey

Written By:
Tom Jeffrey
William L. Nagle

Actors:
Graham Kennedy ..... Harry
John Hargreaves ..... Bung
John Jarratt ..... Bill
Bryan Brown ..... Rogers
Graeme Blundell ..... Dawson
Richard Moir ..... Medic
Ian Gilmour ..... Scott
Graham Rouse ..... Cook
John Allen ..... Lt. Golonka
Tony Barry ..... Black Ronnie
Brandon Burke ..... Isaacs
John Fitzgerald ..... Intelligence corporal
Mike Harris ..... Sergeant Major
Johnny Garfield ..... Padre
Ray Meagher ..... Range corporal

Synopsis:

In The Odd Angry Shot director Tom Jeffrey provides a cathartic Australian answer to Michael Cimino's The Deer Hunter. Australia's participation in the Vietnam War was as much of an alienating and soul-searching experience for Australians as for Americans, and Jeffrey's frank portrayal of a group of Australian volunteers casts the war in a different light from the perspective of a Cimino or Oliver Stone. The story concerns a corp of Australian elite soldiers - the Special Air Service troops (the equivalent of the United States' Special Forces group) - and the elite group's more pragmatic and hopeful attitudes - whiling away the time in mindless diversions and cracking jokes. Then one of their own is killed and their feelings about the war suddenly change.

A group of Australian SAS regiment soldiers are deployed to Vietnam around 1967/8 and encounter the realities of war, from the numbing boredom of camp life and long range patrols, raids and ambushes where nothing happens, to the the terror of enduring mortar barrages from an unseen enemy. Men die and are crippled in combat by firefights and booby traps, soldiers kill and capture the enemy, gather intelligence and retake ground only to cede it again whilst battling against the bureaucracy and obstinacy of the conventional military hierarchy. In the end they return to civilization, forever changed by their experiences but glad to return to the life they once knew.

In between drinking cans of Fosters beer, Australian soldiers tread on a few landmines, and generally experience the war in Vietnam.

This product was added to our catalog on Tuesday 19 February, 2008.

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