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Posts Tagged "australian aborigine"

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Storm Boy **** (1976, Greg Rowe, Peter Cummins, David Gulpilil) – Classic Movie Review 11,345

Storm Boy (1976): ‘His free spirit roams with his pet pelican, Mr Percival, and his secret Aboriginal friend, Fingerbone Bill.’ Director Henri Safran’s Australian 1976 children’s film Storm Boy tells the sweet and simple story […]

Jun, 26

Bitter Springs ** (1950, Tommy Trinder, Chips Rafferty, Gordon Jackson, Jean Blue) – Classic Movie Review 11,325

Ealing’s ‘adventure story of the Australian bush’. Director Ralph Smart’s 1950 British/ Australian black and white adventure film Bitter Springs stars Tommy Trinder, Chips Rafferty, Gordon Jackson and Jean Blue. Ealing Studios’ sturdy Kangaroo Western […]

Jun, 19

The Last Wave ***½ (1977, Richard Chamberlain, Olivia Hamnett, David Gulpilil) – Classic Movie Review 11,185

‘The dream that became a nightmare. His was a premonition of doom. Hasn’t the weather been strange… could it be a warning?’ Director Peter Weir’s serious-minded 1977 Australian apocalyptic thriller The Last Wave is a […]

May, 09

We of the Never Never *** (1982, Angela Punch McGregor, Arthur Dignam, Martin Vaughan, Lewis Fitz-Gerald, John Jarratt) – Classic Movie Review 10,841

Director Igor Auzins’s 1982 Australian biographical drama film We of the Never Never stars Angela Punch McGregor, who gives a fine, subtle, layered performance as an Aussie town lass, Jeannie Gunn, who goes to live with […]

Jan, 28

The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith **** (1978, Tommy Lewis, Jack Thompson, Ray Barrett, Freddy Reynolds, Angela Punch McGregor) – Classic Movie Review 9308

Director Fred Schepisi’s 1978 The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith stars Tommy Lewis as nice young Australian half-Aborigine Jimmie Blacksmith, who is brought up by bigoted minister the Reverend Neville (Jack Thompson) at the turn of […]

Jan, 27

Where the Green Ants Dream [Wo die grünen Ameisen träumen] ** (1984, Bruce Spence, Wandjuk Marika, Roy Marika) – Classic Movie Review 9266

Writer-director Werner Herzog’s 1984 Where the Green Ants Dream [Wo die grünen Ameisen träumen] is a disappointing film from Herzog about Australian Aborigines clashing with uranium miners over rights to their land that they believe […]

Jan, 15

Quigley Down Under *** (1990, Tom Selleck, Laura San Giacomo, Alan Rickman, Chris Haywood) – Classic Movie Review 7100

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 […]

May, 27

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