Tangiwai - A Love Story

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Tangiwai - A Love Story

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Christmas Eve 1953: Cricketer Bob Blair (Ryan O'Kane) is in South Africa, days away from batting for New Zealand. His fiancée Nerissa Love (Maddigan's Quest's Rose McIver) is boarding an ill-fated train, which in this excerpt will plunge into the Whangaehu River at Tangiwai, in the country's worst rail disaster. The Dominion Post's Linda Burgess found this TV movie retelling of the tragic romance "first-rate", noting "consistently excellent" performances from O'Kane, McIver, and Miranda Harco...

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Video

Date created

2011

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http://www.nzonscreen.com/title/tangiwai-a-love-story-2011

Related subjects

lahar / bridge / train / tangiwai / disaster / railway / lippy pictures / christmas / fifties / 50s / cricket / whangaehu / weta workshop / nz on air / new zealand on air

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