Quigley Down Under (1990) English · DVD

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Directed by Simon Wincer and released in 1990, this sweeping western adventure stars Tom Selleck and Alan Rickman. Set in the Australian outback, the film blends moral conflict with stunning landscapes. A thoughtful twist on the traditional western.

tom selleck gives the boldest performance of his career is this "new style, revisionist western with the panoramic scope of a movie epic" (los angeles times). fierce gunfights, forbidding landscapes, breakneck chases - all hallmarks of the classic western - are reinvented in this hard-pounding actioner that "revitalizis the genre" and comes out "a sure winner" (the hollywood reporter).
arriving in australian with nothing more than a suddle and his prized six-foot sharps rifle, american sharpshooter matthew quigley thinks he's been hired to kill off wild dogs. but when he realizes, instead, that his mission is murder - to "elininate" the aborigines from a wealthy cattle baron's land - quigley refuses and quickly turns from hunter to hunted. forced to wage a savage war against his former employer, quigley proves that no one gets the best of a steely-eyed american gunfighter - no one, that is, except the mysterious beauty (laura san giacomo, sex, lies, & videotape) who rides by his side and captures his heart.