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A well cast Rosalind Russell was Oscar nominated for her dedicated acting as Sister Elizabeth Kenny in director Dudley Nichols’s stirring 1946 biopic based on Mary Kenny’s own story And They Shall Walk (written with Martha […]
Writer-director Peter Weir’s 1974 directorial calling card movie The Cars That Ate Paris is a tense, eerie and atmospheric tale of Australia’s Outback, where a far-flung small community makes its living causing car crashes and […]
Director Phillip Noyce’s 1978 Australian times are changing movie Newsfront is an excellent, likeable, good-humoured drama of rival Aussie cinema newsreel cameramen in the Fifties. They are sweet-natured Len Maguire (Bill Hunter) for ‘Cinetone’ and bad-tempered […]
Director Simon Wincer’s enjoyable 1990 middle-of-the-road Aussie Western stars Tom Selleck as high, wide and handsome American cowboy adventurer and sharpshooter Matt Quigley, who is hired from Wyoming by black-hearted, villainous Australian rancher Elliott Marston […]
‘On St Valentine’s Day in 1900 a party of schoolgirls set out to picnic at Hanging Rock. Some were never to return.’ Miranda: ‘What we see and what we seem are but a dream, a […]
Director Edward Ludwig’s 1940 adventure movie Swiss Family Robinson stars Thomas Mitchell, who is excellent as William Robinson, the patriarch of the Robinson family, shipwrecked on their way to Australia and stranded on a desert […]
Director Burt Kennedy’s 1969 Western spoof is appealing, affectionate and funny. It provides a spot-on tailor-made role for James Garner as Jason McCullough, the stranger who rides into a gold-rush town and is immediately made […]