Here's a Recommended Movie with a difference....

In the late 1980s, a friend & I rented the VHS of The Lighthorsemen from our local video rental store. It's a rousing (true story) Australian WW1 film set in what was then Palestine, featuring an amazing and very heroic finale. After watching it we both agreed that "we should honour those soldiers", or something like that. So not long after, a group 6 of us dressed in dinner jackets, drew on outrageous WWI style moustaches with a girlfriend's mascara pencil and sat down to a fine meal of beef wellington. At the start of the meal we raised a toast to "The Lighthorsemen" with a glass of port with a raw egg cracked into it.

Fairly silly stuff from a group of 20-something males you might think, but the amazing thing is that 30 years later, we're still meeting. There were a few personnel changes in the early years but the core remained & it's been the same group now for 15 years or so, and the doors are now closed. We still wear dinner jackets, still wear outrageous drawn-on moustaches and still toast with port & raw egg. It's become a cornerstone of my life & of the other 5 guys, it is the only time that I see 4 of them. We take it in turn to host the event & this year will see the 2nd continental event as the others travel out to my place; a great honour.

As for the film, we used to watch it every year but that soon stopped. About a year ago I bought the Bluray (Australian import I think) & watched it again for the first time in probably 20 years & loved it all over again. I'd recommend it to anybody who enjoys WWI films although I can't promise that it will affect your life the way it's affected mine!

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