The Breaker and "Scapegoats of the Empire"
I stumbled onto this thread whilst browsing and was captured by it, particularly the saving of the old courthouse where part of the film was shot.
I use "'Breaker' Morant" in my European history class, so I too have seen it nearly twenty times and will never tire of it. I think it teaches several lessons, not the least one about the role of the film editor in the creation of the finished product. The girls like it, and are properly incensed with it ends the way they know it will.
I was lucky enough to acquire a copy of "Scapegoats of the Empire" from my alas-now-departed friend who sold me my SMLE Mk.III*. Fascinating read on a number of levels.
Bob Potter
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