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Newsfront **** (1978, Bill Hunter, Gerard Kennedy, Angela Punch McGregor, Wendy Hughes, Chris Haywood, John Ewart, Bryan Brown) – Classic Movie Review 7201

Director Phillip Noyce’s 1978 Australian times are changing movie Newsfront is an excellent, likeable, good-humoured drama of rival Aussie cinema newsreel cameramen in the Fifties. They are sweet-natured Len Maguire (Bill Hunter) for ‘Cinetone’ and bad-tempered […]

Jun, 21

Quigley Down Under *** (1990, Tom Selleck, Laura San Giacomo, Alan Rickman, Chris Haywood) – Classic Movie Review 7100

Director Simon Wincer’s enjoyable 1990 middle-of-the-road Aussie Western stars Tom Selleck as high, wide and handsome American cowboy adventurer and sharpshooter Matt Quigley, who is hired from Wyoming by black-hearted, villainous Australian rancher Elliott Marston […]

May, 27

Picnic at Hanging Rock **** (1975, Rachel Roberts, Anne-Louise Lambert, Vivean Gray, Dominic Guard, Helen Morse, Jacki Weaver) – Classic Movie Review 7097

‘On St Valentine’s Day in 1900 a party of schoolgirls set out to picnic at Hanging Rock. Some were never to return.’ Miranda: ‘What we see and what we seem are but a dream, a […]

May, 26

Swiss Family Robinson *** (1940, Thomas Mitchell, Edna Best, Freddie Bartholomew, Tim Holt, Terry Kilburn) – Classic Movie Review 6938

Director Edward Ludwig’s 1940 adventure movie Swiss Family Robinson stars Thomas Mitchell, who is excellent as William Robinson, the patriarch of the Robinson family, shipwrecked on their way to Australia and stranded on a desert […]

Apr, 17

Support Your Local Sheriff! **** (1969, James Garner, Joan Hackett, Walter Brennan, Jack Elam, Harry Morgan, Bruce Dern, Henry Jones) – Classic Movie Review 6534

Director Burt Kennedy’s 1969 Western spoof is appealing, affectionate and funny. It provides a spot-on tailor-made role for James Garner as Jason McCullough, the stranger who rides into a gold-rush town and is immediately made […]

Jan, 07

Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome *** (1985, Mel Gibson, Tina Turner, Bruce Spence, Angelo Rossitto, Helen Buday, Rod Zuanick, Frank Thring) – Classic Movie Review 6,506

The 1985 film Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome is the lavish third part of director George Miller’s trilogy. in which Mel Gibson’s Max leads a revolt by children against villainous Aunty Entity (Tina Turner). The 1985 […]

Jan, 01

The Sundowners **** (1960, Robert Mitchum, Deborah Kerr, Glynis Johns, Peter Ustinov, Michael Anderson Jr, Dina Merrill, Mervyn Johns) – Classic Movie Review 6165

Director Fred Zinnemann’s likeable, high, wide and handsome 1960 Australian adventure film stars Robert Mitchum and Deborah Kerr as an early 20th century Outback sheep herder/ drover and his wife. They argue about whether their nomadic Carmody […]

Oct, 31

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