The Cowra Breakout

I watched this miniseries many times in the 80s and knew it well. I have purchased several copies of versions supposedly with different run times but they both have many scenes and characters edited out. For example scenes containing Peter Phelps and Donal Gibson (Blackjack) are missing.

I can only imagine this is due to political correctness due to their (what may now be considered offensive) comments and actions. There have been other scenes missing as well.

The original was very good. This version is watchable but you feel very shortchanged if you know the original. Don't be fooled by the different dvd version listed run times, they appear to be the same and are heavily edited. I found out the hard way.