About Hammers Over the Anvil
- Released on July 22, 1994
Set in the summer of 1910 in Australia the film follows the story of 14 year old Alan Marshall (Alexander Outhread) as he stumbles out of childhood towards the exciting yet forbidding world of adulthood. For Alan, despite the effects of polio, there is only one passion in life - to become a great horseman just like his hero, the reclusive horse trainer East Driscoll (Russell Crowe). Alan is one of East's few friends and also one of the few who knows about the affair between East and the aristocratic English woman Grace McAlister (Charlotte Rampling). Things inevitably take a turn towards the tragic when East becomes determined to force Grace to leave her husband and run away with him. Hammers Over The Anvil is an evocative coming of age film from Australian director Ann Turner.
Full Cast of Hammers Over the Anvil
Russell Crowe plays East Driscoll
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Frankie J. Holden plays Bushman Marshall
Jake Frost plays Joe Carmichael
Alethea McGrath plays Mrs. Bilson
John Rafter Lee plays Charles McAlister
Frank Gallacher plays Mr. Thomas the Preacher
Amanda Douge plays Nellie Bolster
Kirsty McGregor plays Elsie Marshall
Daphne Grey plays Mrs. Herbert
Caroline Kemp plays Lucy Taylor
Sam Nightingale plays Freckles Jack
Syd Brisbane plays Duke the Dance Caller
Peter Osborn plays Father Finnegan
Wayne Pygram plays Snarley Burns
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