A screen adaptation of the documentary events is based on a real story of Private Simpson, who served as a stretcher bearer in the Australian Army during World War I.
In no way remarkable guy became famous for his courage and inventiveness, dragging out from battle fields his wounded comrades.
The movie is interesting for David's fans as one of the first David's appearance on the screen.
A nameless wounded soldier of World War I, dying on the hands of kind-hearted medical orderlyЕThe first David's role was so small that wasn't even favored with recording it in the credit titles. This is the way to starsЕ
But who could see at that time in a thin red-haired soldier an image of a courageous and noble Gondorian warrior?
Cast:
Robert Willox ...Private Jack Simpson
Peter Turnbull ...Private Gillies
Mark McAskill ... Private Pratley
Kevin Healy ...Colonel Ryan
Lyndon Harris ...Captain Fry
David Wenham ...Wounded soldier
and the others...
1987