The First Kangaroos
The First Kangaroos is a 1988 BritishAustralian made for TV sports film directed by Frank Cvitanovich and starring Dennis Waterman, Chris Haywood and Dominic Sweeney. It depicts the 190809 Kangaroo tour of Great Britain, the firstever such tour by the Australia national rugby league team.
Both Wayne Pearce Balmain Tigers and Andrew Ettingshausen CronullaSutherland Sharks were current Australian rugby league test players when the film was released. Pearce had been a member of the undefeated 1982 Kangaroo tour, while Ettingshausen would go on to be the leading try scorer on both the 1990 and 1994 Kangaroo Tours.Karen Hardy, reviewing the film in 2013 said, Sure, it wasnt the finest sports movie ever made but there was humour intentional or not, I wasnt quite sure and conflict and pathos. And its story, which it admitted in the opening credits was sort of based on true events, was an interesting one. ........
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