The Breaker
Clip 1: Henry ‘Breaker’ Morant
2 min 49 sec
Taken from the documentary The Breaker (c1973)
Original title classification not known – this clip chosen to be PG
Availability of the complete title
Curator’s clip description
Using stock footage to accompany the voice-over, the narrator tells us, in detail, of the disputed circumstances of Morant’s birth in England, and of his arrival in Australia in 1884.
We learn that as a young man in Western Queensland, he gained a reputation as an excellent horseman, thus earning the nickname ‘breaker’. He was known for his taste in ‘wild horses, women and hard liquor’.
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