The Sundowners (1960)
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Director Fred Zinnemann was riding a crest in the '50s with movies like High Noon, From Here to Eternity, Oklahoma, and his success continues in this western-style drama set in Australia in the 1920s. Ida Carmody (Deborah Kerr) is married to Paddy (Robert Mitchum), a sheep drover whose nomadic existence makes him blissfully content. Neither Ida nor their son Sean share his love for roaming, in fact, Ida convinces her husband to take on a job as a sheep-shearer so they can finally have enough to get a mortgage on a farm. At first Paddy agrees but obviously does not know his own mind because in no time at all, he rebels -- though that is not the end of it. Peter Ustinov is also featured as Vanneker, a bachelor who comes to stay with the family, and Glynis Johns plays a hotelkeeper out to change Vanneker's non-marital status. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
- Theatrical Feature Running Time:
- 133 mins
Complete Cast:
- Deborah Kerr - Ida Carmody
- Peter Ustinov - Rupert Venneker
- Dina Merrill - Jean Halstead
- Michael Anderson, Jr. - Sean Carmody
- Wylie Watson - Herb Johnson
- Ronald Fraser - Ocker
- Molly Urquhart - Mrs. Bateman
- Dick Bentley - Shearer
- Peter Carver - Shearer
- Robert Mitchum - Paddy Cannody
- Glynis Johns - Mrs. Firth
- Chips Rafferty - Quinlan
- Lola Brooks - Liz
- John Meillon - Bluey
- Mervyn Johns - Jack Patchogue
- Ewen Solon - Bob Halstead
- Max Osbiston - Farm Couple
- Gerry Duggan - Shearer
- Director(s):
- Fred Zinnemann
- Writer(s):
- Isobel Lennart
- Producer(s):
- Fred Zinnemann, Gerry Blattner
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- 1960 - The Sundowners - Hollywood Foreign Press Association - Special Achievement
- 1960 - The Sundowners - National Board of Review - Best Actor
- 1960 - The Sundowners - New York Film Critics Circle - Best Actress
