Bodyline (1984)

Dramatization 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 (headed by captain Douglas Jardine) 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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as Douglas Jardine

as Donald Bradman

as Harold Larwood

Rhys McConnochie

Rhys McConnochie

as Pelham Warner

as Percy George Fender

Heather Mitchell

Heather Mitchell

as Clive 'Chooka' Cooper (Reporter)

as Bill Woodfull

as Nawab of Pataudi

as Eddie Paynter

as Mrs. Jardine

Colleen Fitzpatrick

Colleen Fitzpatrick

as Mrs. Bradman

as Jessie Bradman

as Joseph Lyons (Prime Minister)

Nicholas Gledhill

Nicholas Gledhill

as Douglas Jardine (young)

as Aubrey Oxlade

as Dr. Allen Robertson

as William Jeanes

as Ernest Jones (Barracker)

as Bill Ponsford

Michael Winchester

Michael Winchester

as Jack Fingleton

Michael O'Neill

Michael O'Neill

as Viv Richardson

Robert Giltinan

Robert Giltinan

as Bert Ironmonger

as Bert Oldfield

as Sir Clive Wigram

Brian McDermott

Brian McDermott

as Frank Packer

as Sir Ernest Crutchley

as Waiter - Perth Reception

as George 'Gubby' Allen

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