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I found the Plot summary section of this article to be a lengthy repetition of facts about the trial that are already fully detailed on the Breaker Morant or Court martial of Breaker Morant wiki pages already. Wouldn't it be better to trim the summary to the basic details of the story (say about 1/3 its current length) and refer the reader to the other sites for further details and analysis? (unsigned comment by User:Jabberjawjapan on 24 July 2009)
The article currently (as at 12 June 2006) states:
Firstly, it is inaccurate, most likely due to a mis-reading of the apparently equivocal English of the film credits.
Ken Ross certainly did write the play upon which the film was based; but, it is essential to understand that he also actually physically worked on the entire film script as one of the screenplay writers. Thus, it's entirely true that the script was written by Kenneth Ross (play); but that description in the film creditis was not meant to be read as if he had nothing to do with the script (but only wrote the original play from which the film was adapted).
The second and far more serious factual error is that the article perpetuates a very serious inaccuracy that was supposedly corrected by specific and successful legal action that was taken by Ken Ross against Angus & Robertson, the publisher of Denton's 1973 novel, The Breaker, in 1980.
Denton's 1973 book The Breaker: A Novel [ ISBN 0207143447] had not been popular at the time it was first published.
In fact, Ross had no knowledge whatsoever of the existence of Denton's (by 1978 out of print for 4 years) book until long after the first stage perfomances of his play, Breaker Morant: A Play in Two Acts [ ISBN 0726709972] had taken place in 1978.
Ross's play was a great commercial and artistic success, and almost immediately, work began to make a film based on the play. At this time, Denton's publisher Angus & Robertson suddenly re-issued Denton's 1973 novel, The Breaker with great gusto, with precisely the same front cover except that on one corner of the book's cover was the false and misleading nnouncement "Soon to be a Movie" [ ISBN 0207140650].
Denton had no knowledge of, and had no input into this decision by the publisher.
This announcement, of course, was totally wrong for two reasons:
Ross took successful legal action against Angus & Robertson. Angus & Robertson withdrew the 1979 version of Denton's book (with the false and misleading announcement on the cover), from sale and trashed all the remaining copies; and another, "revised" version of Denton's book (minus the cover announcement) was issued by Angus & Robertson in 1980 [ ISBN 0207142688].
Unfortunately, Ken Ross's emphatic legal victory did not receive a lot of publicity at the time; and many people today still labour under the misapprehension that Kit Denton's book was the source for the movie.
Given all of the above, all of which is well-established, but not widely known, I suggest three things:
(1) the text:
be altered to read:
(2) That the page be somehow "locked off" electronically, so that the original incorrect information (i.e., relating to Denton's book)can not be restored.
(3) A footnote should also be inserted to the effect that, in recent times, "Ken Ross", who styled himself "Kenneth Ross" in order to avoid confusion with others in Australia called "Ken Ross", is now compelled to style himself "Kenneth G. Ross" so that he is not confused with the other "Kenneth Ross" -- the one who wrote the film script/screenplay for The Day of the Jackal. Thank you for your attention Lindsay658 05:14, 11 June 2006 (UTC)
It seems to me that not only the general tone but also some very specific details in Breaker Morant were influenced by Kubrick's film, Paths of Glory. I know of no evidence to support this, but the parallelisms might be worth a mention in the main article. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 68.4.247.9 ( talk) 02:39, 10 May 2007 (UTC).
The popularity of this film in the US owes to more than interest in the history of the British Commonwealth. Its theme of moral ambiguities in fighting a guerilla war struck a chord in many Americans who had just finishing doing the same thing in Vietnam. It would be many years before US cinema dealt with this theme, and then only obliquely. Casualties of War (1989) depicts the environment of uncertainty and dread causing soldiers to become unhinged and commit atrocities, but even it does not consider that summary executions were committed by loyal, effective soldiers doing what they thought they were supposed to do, or that reprisals seemed to be a just response to guerilla tactics.
This is quite possibly worth a section on the popular reception of the film outside of Australia.
Perhaps we in the US will one day have a film that examines what was done in our name and the state of mind of the soldiers we put there to do it. Until then, Breaker Morant is it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.8.232.161 ( talk) 19:53, 24 September 2008 (UTC)
"Breaker Morant concerns the murder trial of three Australian Army officers of the Bushveldt Carbineers serving in South Africa during the Second Boer War"
No Australian army in the Boer War, Breaker Morant was a British officer, in the British army. —Preceding
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The over reliance on one self published partisan 'commentator' is extremely problematic and requires a complete rewrite of the sections he is cited as being the source of such information - which is a majority of this article. There are also multiple inaccuracies attributed to Leach. Nürö G'DÄŸ MÄTË 02:56, 7 October 2021 (UTC)