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Hero image for 1990 Commonwealth Games promo - Join Together

1990 Commonwealth Games promo - Join Together

Commercial (Full Length) – 1989

This epic Lee Tamahori-directed promo for the 1990 Auckland Commonwealth Games imagines the stirrings of Games spirit in the mud of the Western Front, 1917. Behind the lines, soldiers from various 'British Empire' nations (Bruno Lawrence, Tony Barry and a young Joel Tobeck) lay bets to see who is the fastest. After racing they pledge to "do this again sometime eh brother" (referring no doubt to the shared joy of competition, as opposed to 1,115,597 Commonwealth war dead). The first Commonwealth Games were held in Hamilton, Ontario (Canada), in 1930. 

I got a couple of bob that says you’re not the fastest man in Belgium.
– Bruno challenges the fastest man in Bendigo (Tony Barry) to a race

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