WI Gallipoli had succeeded?

CalBear

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Mad Max was in instant monster success in Australia, and by the time of Gallipolli Gibson had also made a film called 'Tim', which was the first film adaptation of a Colleen McCullough novel. Gibson was a bona fide leading man in Australian cinema by then

When Mad Max was first released in the States, the entire film was redubbed so the actors all had middle American accents. Movie made absolutely no friggin' sense at all.

I remember spending the whole thing trying to figure out why they were driving on the wrong side of the &*^%# road.:p
 

Cook

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When Mad Max was first released in the States, the entire film was redubbed so the actors all had middle American accents. Movie made absolutely no friggin' sense at all.

I remember spending the whole thing trying to figure out why they were driving on the wrong side of the &*^%# road.:p

Coincidentally “Babe” was on the television last night.

Everyone’s running round with Middle American Accents but the vehicles all have right hand steering and Esme Hoggett jumps on a bus with a CWA logo clearly visible on the rear window. CWA = Country Women’s Association.

Re: Mad Max.

In 1996 I drove up the highway near Broken Hill that they used in the filming of Mad Max 2. It’s not changed at all.
 
IMDB lists the actors in their order of appearance for “Gallipoli” the movie.

No-one who saw the film in the cinema at the time (as I did) was in any doubt as to who the lead actor was.
Actually, I saw Gallipoli when it came out, too. I may have known that X was the main character, but I had absolutely no idea who this Mel Gibson guy was who played him, and when I heard of him later I had no memory of the name. As has been obvious. Sigh.

The scene that sticks in my mind is the doofus Brit general with the defective watch.
 

Larrikin

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Actually, I saw Gallipoli when it came out, too. I may have known that X was the main character, but I had absolutely no idea who this Mel Gibson guy was who played him, and when I heard of him later I had no memory of the name. As has been obvious. Sigh.

The scene that sticks in my mind is the doofus Brit general with the defective watch.

There was not doofus Brit general with a defective watch. They had failed to synchronise watchs at the last briefing, and the troops were sent over by their own Australian colonels. See the comments earlier in the thread about pommie bashing.

There was a disgraceful piece of generalship happen that day, but it was north of Anzac Cove, at Suvla Bay, when MajGen Stopford stopped for tea on the beach and didn't push his troops on when they landed. That threw away the last chance of a victory, and made the losses at the Nek and Chunuk Bair that were suffered that day even worse.
 
von Adler

While I agree with the bulk of your analysis don't forget that the campaign started several months before the Bulgarians joined the central powers. As such they could have been swayed the other way. [In fact the best bet for a success would have been a better organised operation doing more and drawing in more of the Ottoman army coupled with a serious political/military/economic campaign to win the Bulgarians over].

The other factor with Bulgaria being neutral at that point is that the Ottomans were totally isolated from the other two central powers. It was only when Bulgaria joined in and Serbia was finally crushed that a connection was established.

Steve

Yes, the campaign started in April and the Bulgarians joined in October, but the Gallipoli campaign did not end until January 1916. I just wanted to cover the prospect of a late Entente breakthrough.
 
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