Tuesday, January 19, 2010

Quigley Down Under (MGM 1990)



Thanks for the suggestion Nanc!

Good gun movie here. I guess if you think about it, Quigley Down Under is a complete reversal of Crocodile Dundee.

Here's an interesting fact. Steve McQueen was supposed to star in this movie after he completed The Hunter in 1980. However, the actor became sick and the movie was scrapped until Tom Selleck was given the role.

Here is the review from Wikipedia...

Tom Selleck plays Matthew Quigley, a cowboy and rifleman from America with a keen eye and a specially modified rifle with which he can shoot accurately at extraordinary distances. Quigley's weapon of choice is an 1874 Sharps Buffalo Rifle. He answers an advertisement that asks for men with a special talent in long distance shooting, the job being in Australia. On arriving, he is met by employees of the man who hired him, Elliot Marston (Alan Rickman), and is eventually taken to Marston's station in the Western Australian outback.

Marston is a gentleman infatuated with stories of quick-draw gunslingers from the American Old West, believing himself to have been born on the wrong continent, and amazed that Quigley has actually been to Dodge City. He hires Quigley to come to Australia in the hopes that Quigley will use his sharpshooting skills to help eradicate the native Aborigines. Quigley finds the idea abhorrent and the two men are quickly headed for a showdown.

Laura San Giacomo provides comic relief and a love interest as "Crazy Cora." Having suffered a terrifying personal tragedy some years before the film's story begins, Cora appears to think that Quigley is her estranged husband, Roy.

After Quigley turns Marston down, Marston has his men dump Quigley and Cora in the Australian Outback with no water and little chance of survival. Thanks to the help of a group of Aborigines, Quigley and Cora survive to rescue other Aborigines from Marston's men, including an orphaned baby who helps Cora overcome her tragic past. As the story progresses, Marston loses more and more men to Quigley until the final showdown, which leaves Quigley standing to face a hostile British major.

Here is the trailer...

6 comments:

WomanHonorThyself said...

thanks for the suggestion as always bro! HUGS!

nanc said...

LOVE QUIGLEY!

Another we watched this weekend past - found in the five dollar bin at Walmart - Four Feathers with Heath Ledger - we were surprised.

Brooke said...

I LOVE that movie! We watch it whenever it's on TV. I need to buy a copy!

Borepatch said...

Great film, Edge. I love Alan Rickman in it.

Anonymous said...

Good movie. Tom Selleck is cool.

ASM826 said...

Alright. I missed this one when it was new, will take time to see it on your suggestion.