Rent Howzat! Kerry Packer's War: Series (2012)
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2h 53min
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- Synopsis:
Howzat! is the story of how in 1976 businessman Kerry Packer caused a cricket war by secretly signing up fifty of the world's best cricketers and establishing World Series Cricket, a highly-successful rebel group which challenged the Establishment and thrust the game into a new era of professionalism. In 1976 Australian businessman Kerry Packer, miffed at not having been granted TV broadcasting rights by the Australian Cricket Board, threw the cricket world into turmoil by secretly signing up 50 of the world's best cricketers and establishing World Series Cricket, a highly-successful rebel tour which clashed head-on with test matches under the auspices of the cricket authorities. Howzat! tells the story of the bitter two-year cricket war between Packer, with his highly-paid best-of-the-best professionals, and the cricket Establishment doing its best to protect the hundred-year legacy of pride in the traditional nature of the mainly-amateur game. The result of the hostilities, won by Packer and his bunch of mavericks, was to change cricket forever. World Series Cricket introduced into the game a dramatic new era of dynamism and elite professionalism and thrust cricket into the modern era. - Actors:
- Lachy Hulme, Abe Forsythe, Damon Gameau, Brendan Cowell, Matthew Le Nevez, Clayton Watson, Craig Hall, Richard Davies, Alexander England, Nicholas G. Cooper, Hamish Michael, Tony Briggs, Ryan O'Kane, Peter Houghton, Mandy McElhinney, Cariba Heine, Nicholas Bell, Paul Ireland
- Directors:
- Daina Reed
- Producers:
- Mimi Butler, John Edwards
- Voiced By:
- Bill Lawry, Norman May, Tony Cozier
- Writers:
- Christopher Lee
- Studio:
- Dazzler
- Genres:
- Drama, TV Dramas
- Collections:
- A History of Cricket Films, A Brief History of Film...
- Countries:
- Australia
