Rewi's Last Stand

{{short description|1925 film}}

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| director = Rudall Hayward

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| starring = {{ubl|Charles Alexis|Nola Casselli|Wightman McCombe}}

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Rewi's Last Stand is the title of two feature films written and directed by pioneering New Zealand filmmaker Rudall Hayward: a 1925 silent movie, and a 1940 remake with sound. They are historical dramas, based on the last stand of Rewi Maniapoto at the Battle of Ōrākau.[http://www.nzhistory.net.nz/war/war-in-waikato/battle-of-orakau The Battle of Orakau] at New Zealand History

File:Camera, motion picture (silent) (AM 1974.103.2-4).jpgHayward believed that New Zealand's history offered material as dramatic as any Hollywood western. He set out to make films involving conflicts between Māori and Pākehā "while there were still people alive" who remembered the period accurately.[http://www.TeAra.govt.nz/en/biographies/4h22/1 L. R. Shelton. 'Hayward, Rudall Charles Victor - Biography', from the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography. Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, updated 1-Sep-10] accessed 22 November 2012