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All-Time Sales Rank: 490
| Overall Rating:  4.25 out of 5, including 4 reviews
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"Excitement. Ambushes. Close Calls. A handsome, well-acted film!" -Roger Ebert
Tom Selleck gives the boldest performance of his career in 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 "revitalizes the genre" and comes out "a sure winner" (The Hollywood Reporter).
Arriving in Australia with nothing more than a saddle 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 "eliminate" 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.
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Features:
| "The Rebirth Of A Western" Featurette
Original TV Spots
Original Theatrical Trailer
| Video:
| | Widescreen 2.35:1 Color (Anamorphic) | | Audio: (more info) | ENGLISH: Dolby Digital Surround [CC]
SPANISH: Dolby Digital Mono
FRENCH: Dolby Digital Surround
| Subtitles:
| | Spanish, French
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| Studio: MGM / UA
Production Year: 1990
Release Date: 9/4/2001
Length: 120 mins
Rating: PG-13
Chapters: 16
| Packaging: Keep Case
Number of Discs: 1
Disc: SS-DL
Item Code: 1002370
UPC Code: 027616865816
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Overall Rating: 4.25 out of 5, including 4 reviews
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go Quigley - 3.75 out of 5 (9/4/2001)
If QUIGLEY DOWN UNDER had a making of documentary on the disc, I'm sure it
would be filled with Director Simon Wincer telling us how the movie was not
really a western, but a revisionist western with a fish out of water heart.
Looking back, I realize that sounds really snide, but you have to remember
I just finished watching CROCODILE DUNDEE IN LOS ANGELES and I sat through
the making of which had Simon Wincer stating the fish out of water concept
six times in twelve minutes.
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Western Legend is an Understatement - 4.5 out of 5 (9/7/2004)
Unusual name, Quigley; unusually brilliant, Down Under!
Suspense, action, tension, drama, romance, comedy, sorrow, and vilification; they're all there! Tom Selleck out John Wayne's John Wayne in his portrayal of what a western hero ought to be, and Laura San Gianomo as the mysterious Crazy Cora steals the show. Alan Rickman, perfectly cast as Elliott Marston, gives them both a hard way to go in his portrayal of the evil Station (that's ranch to us Americans) owner who hires Quigley for his pi
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Selleck's finest - 3.75 out of 5 (5/24/2004)
A little known western, criminally at that, that finds a rugged American cowboy in the Australian outback, and damn does it ever work. The fish out of water aspect is here naturally, but its more the world is the fish to Quigley's water, as he's level headed the entire time.
Selleck is amazing, in a role that makes you not see Magnum at all, but Matthew Quigley only. The longrifle and the fear that comes with it just ups the enjoyment of his character and the film overall.
MGM did a dece
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the best western film ive seen in a long time - 5 out of 5 (1/7/2003)
Excitement. Ambushes. Close Calls. A handsome, well-acted film!" -Roger Ebert
Tom Selleck gives theiboldest performance of his careeriin this "new style, revisionist western with theipanoramic scope ofia movie epic" (Los Angeles Times). Fierce gunfights, forbidding landscapes, breakneck chases - all hallmarks of theiclassic western - are reinventediin this hard-pounding actioner that "revitalizes theigenre" andicomes out "a sure winner" (The Hollywood Reporter).
Arrivingiin Australia with
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