First of all, this movie, 1986, you must be confused! It was big news in the local press, I can still see the headline 'Nooit weer kaal voor die kamera' (Never again naked before the camera)* back in early 1984, so I would wager it was filmed during South African summer 1983/1984). Media attention mainly because of Trevyn McDowell's nude scene filmed in a country governed by prudishly uptight people during the time when the old regime still proudly ran this country like it was a part of Western Civilization, which it no longer is, what a pity.
*yes, a good Calvinistic girl, little Trevyn assured the whole nation tearfully that she was gong to be a good girl (sob) from now on (sob) and she fearfully hoped and prayed (sob) for God's forgiveness (sob) after having been so (sob) sinfully n-a-k-e-d (sob) in front of God and (sob) the world.**
**okay, artistic license here, writer admits to exaggeration, but you get the idea how she had to grovel for re-acceptance into the community! Laugh, but South Africa used to be a staunchly moralistic country.
The language referred to by that other reviewer, is Afrikaans, defined as South-African Dutch. There was a taste of it earlier in this review.
Rest assured that the war crimes against the Boers took place, no fiction, for real, it was horrendous, atrocious, a blight on Britain's history, with concentration camps, women and children dying, farms ravaged, everything bad you could imagine, there were no difference between the English oppressors and the Nazis 40 years later.
Political comments now left behind! I am focusing on the movie.
It seems to have been available on DVD at Amazon, but the item was sold by the next day, and it was just VHS, VHS, VHS and nobody wants a VHS tape anymore, and I'd need a VHS-PAL anyway, being South African. Movie has been on my Hard-to-Find list for years. Downloaded a trailer, all I have.
Oddly enough, for somebody on a quixotic charge after it, I've never actually seen it decently. It was on TV some Saturday night decades ago, but I considered it as part of the local junk and didn't pay much attention, and then it turned out to be watchable after all, but I missed a whole lot of it. Main interest of course was Trevyn McDowell, but watching the downloaded trailer I can't see what my fuss was about back then.
I well remember that scene where the guy on horseback whispered something in the girl's ear at the end of the movie. Besides a vague memory of the soldiers clamoring to get at the girl prior to the rape, there is nothing else that I remember besides refreshed memories after the downloading, yet I do want to see this again.
As a point of interest, due to black-listings as the rest of the world was so against the old regime, this movie was released under a different title elsewhere, and I've done research to find this title during my quest to locate it on DVD, but years later on IMDb, no sign of this. Do know, IMDb, that at least on two counts, your info is lacking...
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It's years and years later. I've long since given up on DVDs. USB transfer after download made it possible for me to gain access to this today. It is of extremely poor quality, I mean, it looks terrible, but I can finally revisited this dim memory. And I have started to submit quotes, don't know if controversial lines will be accepted, also the use of Afrikaans. Plus the plot summary is all wrong, it's totally some other movie. As for what I'm watching, it really is something worth watching, it deserves way more than I gave it back then. But it's an mp4 download... very weak. Tells you a lot about the movie that I am struggling through it. Had it been 360p I'd have had real fun, but this is maybe not even half that.
Editing note: IMDb eventually used my contributions. The plot summary is now of the real thing.
I have recently watched some clunker movies on high-res, and it's a compliment to this old junkyard treasure that I then yell out I'd rather have watched TORN ALLEGIANCE on better quality film!
