40,000 Horsemen Poster

40,000 Horsemen (1940)

"THRILLING! BATTLING! LOVING!"

5.6/10 1h 40m Dec 26, 1940
Drama War

Charles Chauvel's 1940 cinematic tribute to the mounted troops of the Australian Light Horse regiments is a rousing call to arms, giving life to the heroic tales of mateship during the Great War.

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Movie Details

Original Title Forty Thousand Horsemen
Original Language EN
Status Released
Popularity 0.2

Cast

Grant Taylor
Grant Taylor
Red Gallagher
Popularity: 3.0
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Betty Bryant
Juliet Rouget
Popularity: 0.1
Chips Rafferty
Chips Rafferty
Jim
Popularity: 0.6
No Photo" alt="Pat Twohill" class="cast-photo">
Pat Twohill
Larry
Popularity: 0.1
No Photo" alt="Joe Valli" class="cast-photo">
Joe Valli
Scotty
Popularity: 0.0
No Photo" alt="Harvey Adams" class="cast-photo">
Harvey Adams
Von Hausen
Popularity: 0.1
No Photo" alt="Eric Reiman" class="cast-photo">
Eric Reiman
Von Schiller
Popularity: 1.2
No Photo" alt="Albert C. Winn" class="cast-photo">
Albert C. Winn
Sheik Abu
Popularity: 0.1
No Photo" alt="Kenneth Brampton" class="cast-photo">
Kenneth Brampton
German Officer
Popularity: 0.0
No Photo" alt="John Fleeting" class="cast-photo">
John Fleeting
Captain Gordon
Popularity: 0.0
No Photo" alt="Harry Abdy" class="cast-photo">
Harry Abdy
Paul Rouget
Popularity: 0.0
No Photo" alt="Norman Maxwell" class="cast-photo">
Norman Maxwell
Ismet
Popularity: 0.0

Key Crew

Director Charles Chauvel
Editor William Shepherd
Writer Charles Chauvel
Screenplay Elsa Chauvel
Producer Charles Chauvel

Videos & Trailers

Brian Trenchard-Smith on FORTY THOUSAND HORSEMEN
Brian Trenchard-Smith on FORTY THOUSAND HORSEMEN
Featurette
FORTY THOUSAND HORSEMAN TRAILER
FORTY THOUSAND HORSEMAN TRAILER
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Keywords

australia

Reviews from TMDB

CinemaSerf
Mar 26, 2025

This is quite a poignant take on a story of three young Australian lads who joined the Allied forces during the Great War and ended up serving in a Middle East replete with Bosch, scheming and plotting locals and a British high command that sadly wasn’t as sharp as their lances. Yep, they were hor ... Read more

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Details
Release Date December 26, 1940
Runtime 1h 40m
Language EN
Status Released
Popularity 0.2
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