Gallipoli
1981 Australian film by Peter Weir · Released 1981
Gallipoli is a 1981 Australian war drama film directed by Peter Weir and produced by Patricia Lovell and Robert Stigwood, starring Mel Gibson and Mark Lee. The film revolves around several young men from Western Australia who enlist in the Australian Army during World War I. They are sent to the Gallipoli peninsula in the Ottoman Empire (modern-day Turkey), where they take part in the Gallipoli campaign. During the course of the film, the young men slowly lose their innocence about the purpose of war. The climax of the film occurs on the Anzac battlefield at Gallipoli, depicting the futile attack at the Battle of the Nek on 7 August 1915.
Cast ages at release (1981)
- Mel Gibson, as Frank Dunne: 24–25
- Bill Kerr, as Jack: 58–59
- Robert Grubb, as Billy: 30–31
- Bill Hunter, as Major Barton: 40–41
- David Argue, as Snowy: 21–22
- Harold Hopkins, as Les McCann: 36–37
- Steve Dodd, as Billy Snakeskin: 52–53
- Gerda Nicolson, as Rose Hamilton: 44–45
- Ron Graham, as Wallace Hamilton: 54–55
- David Williamson, as an Australian soldier: 38–39