AJ_UF or whatever you name is, I can think of at least 4 films Mel Gibson did before Gallipoli, Mad Max, Tim, the Chain Reaction, Plus Mad MadII may have been done before Gallipoli. Also I think the first film he ever did was some unforgetable surf movie I forget the name of that I asw on telly at 2AM one night. I remember also seeing him play a suburban tough/crim on a television series called 'Cop Shop' back in the late 70s. Its was one of these really bad serials that's half police drama, half soap opera. But I used to watch it as I was arround 14 years old & they had a blond wonan detective with real big tits.
Underated films that I really liked include 'Goodbye Paradise' a very silly film about a coup on the Gold Coast, However it had a great script, a film set during the great shearers strike called 'Sunday too far away', however it won Cairn, so I s'pose its not underated. 'Wake in fright' with Donald Pleasance is a top film. The Alec Guinness Ealing Studio comedy classics 'The Lavender Hill Mob' & 'Kind hearts & coronets'. Also the Sergio Leone/Enino Morricone trilogy of 'Dollars' movies & their other great spagetti western 'Once apon a time in the West' & their epic gangster film 'Once apon a time in America' (but not the atrociously cut American release). 'Battle for Algiers' is a great Italian set arround the rebellion against the French there, & 'The Battle of Chile' is a great doco about the CIA coup against the democratically elected govt of Salvador Allende (it contains amazing footage). That'll do for now.