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Posts Tagged "australian western"

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Bitter Springs ** (1950, Tommy Trinder, Chips Rafferty, Gordon Jackson, Jean Blue) – Classic Movie Review 11,325

Ealing’s ‘adventure story of the Australian bush’. Director Ralph Smart’s 1950 British/ Australian black and white adventure film Bitter Springs stars Tommy Trinder, Chips Rafferty, Gordon Jackson and Jean Blue. Ealing Studios’ sturdy Kangaroo Western […]

Jun, 19

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

Sweet Country **** (2017, Hamilton Morris, Sam Neill, Bryan Brown, Matt Day, Ewen Leslie) – Movie Review

Sweet Country is a sweet racially charged Australian Western. Director Warwick Thornton’s obviously ironically named Australian Western, inspired by true events on the Northern Territory frontier in the 1920s, stars Hamilton Morris as middle-aged Aboriginal […]

Mar, 08

Robbery Under Arms *** (1957, Peter Finch, David McCallum, Ronald Lewis, Laurence Naismith) – 5793

Director Jack Lee’s 1957 Rank Organisation historical action adventure stars London-born Peter Finch, who returns to Australia, where he was brought up after the age of 10, to play, dashingly and appealingly, the notorious Captain Starlight, […]

Jul, 19

The Overlanders **** (1946, Chips Rafferty, John Nugent Hayward, Daphne Campbell) – Classic Movie Review 4671

Chips Rafferty stars as Dan McAlpine, a cattle boss who leads a group of Northern Australian cattlemen and their herds away from the threat of Japan’s hostile forces by conducting a herd of 1,000 cattle […]

Nov, 20

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