Hammers Over the Anvil
Overview
Set in the summer of 1910 in Australia the film follows the story of 14 year old Alan Marshall (Alexander Outhread) as he stumbles out of childhood towards the exciting yet forbidding world of adulthood. For Alan, despite the effects of polio, there is only one passion in life - to become a great horseman just like his hero, the reclusive horse trainer East Driscoll (Russell Crowe). Alan is one of East's few friends and also one of the few who knows about the affair between East and the aristocratic English woman Grace McAlister (Charlotte Rampling). Things inevitably take a turn towards the tragic when East becomes determined to force Grace to leave her husband and run away with him. Hammers Over The Anvil is an evocative coming of age film from Australian director Ann Turner.
Release date
22/07/1994
Votes
16
Popularity
0.7
Russell Crowe
East Driscoll
Charlotte Rampling
Grace McAlister
Alexander Outhread
Alan Marshall
Frankie J. Holden
Bushman Marshall
Jake Frost
Joe Carmichael
Alethea McGrath
Mrs. Bilson
John Rafter Lee
Charles McAlister
Frank Gallacher
Mr. Thomas the Preacher
Amanda Douge
Nellie Bolster
Kirsty McGregor
Elsie Marshall
Daphne Grey
Mrs. Herbert
Caroline Kemp
Lucy Taylor
Sam Nightingale
Freckles Jack
Syd Brisbane
Duke the Dance Caller
Peter Osborn
Father Finnegan
Wayne Pygram
Snarley Burns
Lachlan Fischer
Brigalow Bush Band
John H. Francis
Brigalow Bush Band
Hugh Gordon
Brigalow Bush Band
Janet Gordon
Brigalow Bush Band
Brian Erskine
Pork Fair Bagpipers
Matt Monroe
Pork Fair Bagpipers
Ian Welbourne
Cruel Boy
Original Soundtrack
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