The Sundowners | Deborah Kerr, Robert Mitchum

The Sundowners | Deborah Kerr, Robert Mitchum | The Sheep Movie

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The Sundowners

	The Sundowners Deborah Kerr, Robert Mitchum Warner Home Video, 2007 average customer review:based on 18 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

In the Australian Outback the Carmody family--Paddy Ida and their teenage son Sean--are sheep drovers always on the move. Ida and Sean want to settle down and buy a farm. Paddy wants to keep moving. A sheep-shearing contest the birth of a child drinking gambling and a race horse will all have a part in the final decision.Running Time: 133 min.System Requirements:Run Time: 133 minsFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA Rating: NR UPC: 085391113485 Manufacturer No: 111348

The Sundowners

Filmed on location, this breezy Western from Down Under earned five Oscar nominations and has weathered well over the years as a mini epic about freedom and family bonds. Mitchum and Kerr square off nicely as hardworking but happily married roamers, and even manage to hold their Aussie accents in check most of the time. Peter Ustinov, playing a chipper ex-officer who comes to live with the Carmody family, provides some of the film's highest humor, especially in his flirtatious relationship with hotel owner Glynis Johns. What makes a man wander? ZInnemann's "Sundowners" provides no answers, but it's sure fun to tag along.

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The Sheep Movie

I just watched this movie and have to say it is really worth watching. All the actors are great - even when they try to speak with an australian accent - like Deborah Kerr. The movie is beautifully photographed in stunning color. And the rest does the good script. The DVD offers a nice 16:9 widescreen-transfer. A short documentary shot in black and white and the original trailer.
My advice: If you like good movies buy this!

The Sundowners 1960

* First-Rate . The Entire Cast is Exellent * It's tough driving 1.200 sheep across 400 miles of hostile outback but for drovers Paddy and Ida Carmody and Son Sean , it's the only job there is . Poor in possession , they're rich in freedom , adventure and love . Four-time Academy Award winner Fred Zinnermann (1907-1997) directs this warmhearted tale of 1920 Australia . Robert Mitchum (1917-1997) and Deborah Kerr (1921-) play Paddy and Ida , a devoted couple suddenly at odds . She and Sean ( Michael Anderson Jr 1943 - ) want a farm of their own . But settling down is more than Paddy untethered spirit can bear . THE SUNDOWNERS earned five oscars nominations including Best Picture , won Kerr the New York Film Critics Best actress Award and made Mitchum the National Board of Review Best Actor choice for this and HOME FROM THE HILL (1960) say g'day to a movie treasure . High Quality Transfer . Highly Recommended .

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From the Land Down Under Direct to Your Living Room - and Heart

Few youngsters today have heard of this movie, even fewer have seen it, and their lives are quite a bit poorer for that lack.

In today's world of gun-blazing police tracking down the latest serial killer and movies that try to set records for how many cars they can smash up in ever more inventive ways, this movie stands out as impossibly warm-hearted and simple. It's the story of the Carmody family, itinerant sheep drovers in 1920's Australia, and the only gun in this story is one used to shoot rabbits for the family pot. What makes this movie so watchable are the great and finely nuanced performances by just about all the actors here: Robert Mitchum as a man who can't stand being tied down to one place, but nevertheless recognizes and respects his wife's desire for a permanent home; Deborah Kerr as a strong woman who'll take only so much idiocy from her husband, but who also always finds a way to forgive and understand; Peter Ustinov as a British expatriate who finds the concept of marriage disturbing but is always attracted to the fairer sex; Glynis Johns as the impossibly bright, cheerful, and non-stop chattering pub-owner - each performance is as solid as the hard soil of the Australian sheep country where this was filmed.

The scenery is impressive in its own right, with various indigenous Australian animals each coming in for their own cameo appearances, from kangaroos and koalas to emus and wombats. But the background that really impresses is the portrait of the sheep farming industry itself, from the large flocks of sheep to the shearing sheds to the rough-and-tough men who make their living from the sheep.

There's quite a bit of humor here, much of it provided by Ustinov and Johns, but the thing that sticks, and will cause a possible case of teary-eyed vision, is the relationship between Mitchum and Kerr. This is a marriage that won't fail, a bond much stronger than the vagaries and vicissitudes of life or even their disparate desires for a particular way of life. It's never overplayed, but you can sense the deep chemistry between these two from the opening minutes of the film and it never falls out of sight.

This movie was nominated for five Academy Awards, and though it won none of them, it's almost criminal that this movie has been largely forgotten. Perhaps finally having it available on DVD will rectify that situation.

---Reviewed by Patrick Shepherd (hyperpat)

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Sundowners -- a classic movie that exceeds expectations today.

The Sundowners. Starring Deborah Kerr and Robert Mitchum. Kerr is an accomplished actress, with many excellent movies to her credit. This is perhaps her best, a role of great depth and feeling. She and her husband (Mitchum) are itinerants in Australia traveling around from job to job with their 14-year old son in tow. Their struggles to make a life for themselves, while still remaining true to their nature, is a great study of human nature. Kerr's short speech to her son, whom she loves dearly, and shares a desire to live a more settle life with is memorable. The movie's straihgtforward approach and clear depiction of life in Australia is compelling. Outstanding movie.

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