Palestine, 1917. The British advance has been stopped by the Turkish line running from Gaza to Beersheba. The latest attack on Gaza has failed. The attacking forces included a regiment of Australian mounted infantry, the Light Horse… Lighthorseman Frank is wounded in a skirmish with Bedouin. He is replaced by a young soldier, Dave, who proves to be a crack shot, but reluctant to fire at the enemy. Dave proves himself during a German biplane attack. Recuperating in hospital, he meets a sympathetic nurse, Anne… The regiment is called upon for a bold flanking attack on Beersheba. But how do you convince the Turks the main attack will come at Gaza? And how do you attack across a desert without water?
Rated PG-13 | Length 131 minutes
Peter Phelps | Nick Waters | John Larking | John Haywood | Di O'Connor | Shane Briant | Ralph Cotterill | Bill Kerr | Grant Piro | Tony Bonner | Serge Lazareff | Gary Sweet | John Walton | Tim McKenzie | Jon Blake | Matthew Randell | Peter Douglas | Patrick Frost | Adrian Wright | Jim Willoughby | Iain Strutt | Sigrid Thornton | Anne Scott-Pendlebury | Kingsley MacDonald | Brenton Whittle | Anthony Andrews | Anthony Hawkins | David Sadler | Michael Kitschke | John Kelly | Gerard Kennedy | Jon Sidney | Graham Dow | James Wright | Gary Stalker | Stephen Crockett | Tony Mack | Scott Bradley | Bill Stacey | David Bracks | Simon Palomares | Mark Pretti | Robert Simper | Steve Bastoni | Peter Merrill | Peter Browne | Terry Brittingham | Ashley Cooper | Jason Dunn | Brendan Egan | Steve Harrison | Lou Horvath | Adrian Ireland | William Kerr | Kevin May | Tom Mudge | Ricky Noble | Tom O'Brien | Vic O'Neal | Johnny Raaen | Leo Scanders | Barry Stephan | Richard Stevens | Milton Stevens | Tamas Szegedi | Farah Mak