Quigley Down Under
The West was never this far west.
American Matt Quigley answers Australian land baron Elliott Marston's ad for a sharpshooter to kill the dingoes on his property. But when Quigley finds out that Marston's real target is the aborigines, Quigley hits the road. Now, even American expatriate Crazy Cora can't keep Quigley safe in his cat-and-mouse game with the homicidal Marston.
- 6.7
- 1990
- Released
- 1h 59m
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
SlatternKylie Foster
Slattern
William Zappa
Reilly
Jonathan Sweet
Sergeant Thomas
Michael Carman
Deserter
Jon Ewing
Tout
Tim Hughes
MillerDavid Slingsby
Mullion
Danny Adcock
Mitchell
Maeliosa Stafford
Cavanagh
Ollie Hall
Carver
Evelyn Krape
Mrs. Grimmelman
Mark Pennell
Bugler
Don Bridges
Ticket Seller
Gnarnayarrahe Waitairie
KajubiBruce Burrngu Burrngu
AborigineFred Welsh
Startled ManIan Lind
Startled ManJames Wright
BushmanBruce Knappett
BushmanJoanie Thomas
Elderly Woman
Vic Gordon
Elderly ManDavid Le Page
French CanadianCory Tjapaltjarri
Little BitAllan Bradford
BullockyGraham Young
BullockyEamonn Kelly
Klaus GrimmelmanBilly Stockman
Tribal ElderMark Minchinton
PaddyGerald Egan
Whitey
Released
en
$21,413,845.00
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- #indigenous australians
- #australian outback
- #fremantle
- #australian western
- #1860s
- #western australia
- #aboriginal genocide
Reviews
_**“Maybe the dingo ate your baby”**_ In the late 1870s, a famous sharpshooter from Wyoming (Tom Selleck) travels to Australia for a gig with a land baron in the Outback (Alan Rickman), but things turn sour when he learns what the job really entails. Laura San Giacomo is also on hand as Crazy Cora. “Quigley Down Under” (1990) is a Western taking place in the desert wilderness of Australia.
Matthew Quigley: Sharps Shooter. Quigley Down Under is directed by Simon Wincer and written by John Hill. It stars Tom Selleck, Laura San Giacomo and Alan Rickman. Music is by Basil Poledouris and cinematography by David Eggby. Plot sees Selleck as Matthew Quigley, a Wyoming cowboy and sharp shooting rifleman who answers an advertisement to go to Western Australia as a hired sharp shooter. If p