Gallipoli

…in collaboration with Peter Weir, Gallipoli (1981) and The Year of Living Dangerously (1982).

The World War I drama Gallipoli (1981), based on a story by Weir and starring Mel Gibson, won eight Australian Film Institute awards and burnished Weir’s international reputation. His last Australian production, which he cowrote as well as directed, was the masterful The Year of Living Dangerously (1982). The drama…

…Breaker Morant (1980) and Weir’s Gallipoli (1981), and the following year it achieved a smashing commercial success with Miller’s Mad Max II (1981; retitled The Road Warrior, 1982).