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1960 Best Picture Nominee (5 of 5) DID IT WIN: No DID IT DESERVE TO WIN: Absolutely Not. The Sundowners is a pseudo-western about the Carmody family, an Australian family trying to make it in the wilderness. It’s an understatement to say that this film has next to no conflict until the final 10 minutes of the film and that doesn’t even matter.
Robert Mitchum and Deborah Kerr star in a heartwarming romance as big as the Australian Outback--The Sundowners. Australia, 1920s. Ida Carmody (Kerr) loves her husband, Paddy (Mitchum), and Paddy loves the wandering life traveling the wide-open Outback as a sheep drover. Ida and their son, Sean (Michael Anderson), long to settle down on a ranch of their own. But no ranch can ever be big enough ...
The Sundowners is a 1960 Technicolor film that tells the story of an Australian outback family torn between the father's desires to continue his nomadic sheep-herding ways and the wife's and son's desire to settle down in one place. The movie stars Deborah Kerr, Robert Mitchum, and Peter Ustinov, with a supporting cast including Glynis Johns ...
Mar 14, 2017 · Story – The Sundowners (1960) A wagon travels down a dusty road in Australia as the credits roll. The wagon is driven by Paddy ( Robert Mitchum ). His wife, Ida (Deborah Kerr), and their teenage son Sean (Michael Anderson Jr.) are on board. They are heading towards the dusty town of Bulinga.
The Sundowners: Directed by George Templeton. With Robert Preston, Robert Sterling, Chill Wills, Cathy Downs. Brother is pitted against brother in this tale of feuding ranchers in the old west.
84 minutes. Country. United States. Language. English. The Sundowners is a 1950 American Technicolor Western film directed by George Templeton, starring Robert Preston and featuring John Drew Barrymore (billed as John Barrymore, Jr.), Robert Sterling, Chill Wills, and Jack Elam. [1] The film is also known as Thunder in the Dust in the United ...
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 racehorse will all have a part in the final decision.
