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A dramatisation of the 1932/33 Test cricket series between England and Australia. Played in Australia, the series gained notoriety in Australian and worldwide cricketing history for the fact that the English team applied a bowling technique called "leg theory", or more commonly, Bodyline. This technique involved bowlers bowling the ball directly at the batsman's body, and resulted in many of the Australian team receiving numerous bruises and injuries, with batsman Bert Oldfield sustaining a cracked skull. The series generated much anger and resentment towards the English team within Australia and seriously damaged Anglo-Australian cricketing relations at the time

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UPC9398710444995

eBay Product ID (ePID)13051090434

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ActorHugo Weaving, Gary Sweet, John Doyle

Movie/TV TitleBodyline-The Mini Series

RatingM

DirectorDenny Lawrence, Carl Schultz, George Ogilvie, Lex Marinos

FormatDVD

LanguageEnglish

GenreDrama

StudioRoadshow

Run Time330 Mins

TypeDvd

Additional Product Features

Release Year1984

Number of Discs3

DistributorRoadshow Home Entertainment

Tag LineThe day England declared war on Australia.

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by bndfo5539_nas30bhp
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great viewing
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by melvin_6326
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Awesome classic film great copy top rank...
Awesome classic film great copy top ranking to all of the above
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by shro.uk.w11nryl2
05 Apr, 2022
Very enjoyable and first class for a cricketing/history buff
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by 02dward
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Good accurate
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by westflyer24
31 May, 2016
Bodyline
Great story of the cricket Ashes matches between Australia & England when the famous 'Bodyline' bowling was used against Australia, especially Don Bradman, to stop him & the team from scoring runs against England. Douglas Jardine, the England captain, was an interesting tactician in the game of cricket. Bodyline is well worth seeing to absorb the story.
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Bodyline video set
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