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Bustin' down the door - Wayne Bartholomew, Ian Cairns, Tom Curren, Jeremy Gosch

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In 1975 a group of young Australian and South African surfers revolutionized their sport. Surfing was never to be the same again.
Bustin' down the door chronicles a tumultuous two-year period of competitive and cultural clashes in the mid-Seventies in surfing's Mecca - Hawaii's North Shore of Oahu - as a small crew of Australians and South Africans set out with attitude and determination to change the world of surfing.

Framed around the emerging careers of World Champions-to-be Wayne “Rabbit” Bartholomew, Shaun Tomson and Mark Richards, Bustin' documents how these young men risked everything to become the best surfers in the world, and how their courage and vision began a cultural revolution that led to the birth of professional surfing and ultimately what has become today's billion-dollar surf industry.

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Film documentary sport surfing 1970s surfer culture Hawaii wave board pro-surfing Australia South Africa interview

Persons of interest

Wayne Bartholomew .... Himself
Ian Cairns .... Himself
Tom Curren .... Himself
Edward Norton .... Narrator
Mark Richards .... Himself
Kelly Slater .... Himself
Shaun Tomson .... Himself
Peter Townend .... Himself
Jeremy Gosch .... Screenwriter
Monika Gosch .... Screenwriter
Phil Jarratt .... Screenwriter
Robert Traill .... Screenwriter
Jeremy Gosch .... Director

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Theatrical report

You really need to be into surfing to enjoy Bustin' down the door, not because it's a badly made doco but because who cares about some dudes going for a swim? This is a good record of the history of early professional surfing - there are plenty of strange things going on - but it's a lot like Dogtown and Z-boys: outsiders coming inside.

The documentary, sport, surfing movie Bustin' down the door is directed by Jeremy Gosch and stars Wayne Bartholomew, Ian Cairns, Tom Curren.