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6.5/10   5,591 votes
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Director:
Writer (WGA):
John Hill (written by)
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Release Date:
19 October 1990 (USA) more
Tagline:
The West was never this far west...The Emmy Award-winning director of "Lonesome Dove" puts the classic Western back where it was meant to be, on the big screen...in a place it's never been before. more
Plot:
Sharpshooter Matt Quigley is hired from Montana by an Australian rancher paying a very high price. But when Quigley arrives Down Under, all is not as it seems. full summary | add synopsis
Awards:
2 wins & 1 nomination more
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(2 articles)
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A Memorable Western, Eh Mate? more (85 total)

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Tom Selleck ... Matthew Quigley

Laura San Giacomo ... Crazy Cora

Alan Rickman ... Elliott Marston
Chris Haywood ... Major Ashley-Pitt
Ron Haddrick ... Grimmelman

Tony Bonner ... Dobkin

Jerome Ehlers ... Coogan
Conor McDermottroe ... Hobb
Roger Ward ... Brophy

Ben Mendelsohn ... O'Flynn
Steve Dodd ... Kunkurra
Karen Davitt ... Slattern
Kylie Foster ... Slattern

William Zappa ... Reilly
Jonathan Sweet ... Sergeant Thomas
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Also Known As:
Quigley (Australia)
Quigley Down Under (Australia)
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119 min
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2.35 : 1 more
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The film was to have been Steve McQueen's follow-up to The Hunter (1980), but he fell ill shortly after filming The Hunter (1980), so the project was scrapped. more
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Continuity: When Quigley kills the man after they were dumped in the desert, there is a drastic difference between the shadow on the dead man's face between before Quigley shoots and after he shoots. more
Quotes:
Elliott Marston: [Marston is knocked out of his house, through a window. His hands come running]
Elliott Marston: No man knocks me out of my own house!
[stomps back inside]
Elliott Marston: [pause]
[Marston is again knocked out of his house, through a different window]
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28 out of 43 people found the following comment useful.
A Memorable Western, Eh Mate?, 14 April 2006
8/10
Author: ccthemovieman-1 from Lockport, NY, United States

This is a bit a twist: a western in which the setting is Australia, not the United States. Yet, the film features two American characters, played by Tom Selleck and Laura San Giacomo. It's a simple, well-done revenge story with a nice slow-developing romance as the subplot. Meanhile, Alan Rickman, who was good at this sort of thing, plays the hated, despicable villain.

The movie is appealing because it has a good mixture of action (and that is mixed, too, not just the same kind of fistfights or gun battles), romance, nice scenery and a little comedy thrown in. There's also a little PC thrown in as the good guys help out the downtrodden Aborigines, victims of racism by Rickman and his henchmen.

Warning: this a rough film in parts with a couple of harrowing scenes, such as people being pushed off cliffs, Selleck brutally beaten several times and wild vicious dingoes threatening San Giacamo and a little baby, but the action never goes on too long.

All in all, I found it one of the more memorable westerns I've watched. If for nothing else, the awesome sound of Selleck's Sharp Calibre .44 rifle makes this film hard to forget.

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