Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated) Binding: VHS Tape EAN: 9780790732039 Format: Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC ISBN: 0790732033 Label: Warner Home Video Manufacturer: Warner Home Video Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Warner Home Video Release Date: September 16, 1997 Running Time: 133 minutes Sales Rank: 14930 Studio: Warner Home Video Theatrical Release Date: 1960
Amazon.com essential video: An episodic account of a family of roving sheepherders in Australia. Paddy Carmody (Robert Mitchum) loves being 'someone whose home is where the sun goes down,' but his wife (Deborah Kerr) and teenage son are tired of the nomadic life and want to settle down. Director Fred Zinnemann (From Here to Eternity) takes a wonderfully laid-back approach to this likable material, emphasizing the refreshingly grown-up relationship between Mitchum and Kerr as well as the stark scenic attractions of Australia--a continent that, in 1960, was still unfamiliar terrain for the movies. Puckish, portly Peter Ustinov provides the lion's share of the comic relief. One of the high points is a sheep-shearing sequence (the normally self-assured Mitchum was so nervous about accidentally harming an animal that he required a few bottles of beer for fortification before shooting the scene). The Sundowners scored five Oscar nominations, including acting nods for Kerr and Glynis Johns, but won none. --Robert Horton
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Rating: - 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 ... Read More
Rating: - 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.
Rating: - 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!
Rating: - 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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