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Originally Posted by pj67coll
Yes, I saw it in the theater when it came out. Good film, apparently based on actual events. Even a link to my homeland in it which surprised me. Comes up briefly in conversation when they were discussing the price of the herd. My paternal grandfather went to SA as a Brit soldier to fight the boers.
- Peter,
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Oh, I was under the impression it was made for TV. Good enough to be a theater release - I don't recall it coming out but I frequently don't watch that scene too close.
Yeah, that reference to the 'price of horse-flesh' on the worldwide market was interesting. Imagine the journey those horses made: Oregon to Wyoming, incredible country (I wonder if horses dig new vistas, the way I do); then shipped by rail to some East Coast port; then transported by steamer to S. Africa, followed by who knows what adventures, and I use the term loosely. I mean, imagine being a horse in a war.