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The Sundowners (Special Edition)
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Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9780790732039
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC
ISBN: 0790732033
Label: Warner Home Video
Languages: English (Original Language), Analog
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Release Date: September 16, 1997
Running Time: 133 minutes
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: 1960
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Editorial Review:
An episodic account of a family of roving sheepherders in Australia. Paddy Carmody (Robert Mitchum) loves being "someone whose home is where the sun goes down," but his wife (Deborah Kerr) and teenage son are tired of the nomadic life and want to settle down. Director Fred Zinnemann (From Here to Eternity) takes a wonderfully laid-back approach to this likable material, emphasizing the refreshingly grown-up relationship between Mitchum and Kerr as well as the stark scenic attractions of Australia--a continent that, in 1960, was still unfamiliar terrain for the movies. Puckish, portly Peter Ustinov provides the lion's share of the comic relief. One of the high points is a sheep-shearing sequence (the normally self-assured Mitchum was so nervous about accidentally harming an animal that he required a few bottles of beer for fortification before shooting the scene). The Sundowners scored five Oscar nominations, including acting nods for Kerr and Glynis Johns, but won none. --Robert Horton
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Sundowners -- a classic movie that exceeds expectations today.
The Sundowners. Starring Deborah Kerr and Robert Mitchum. Kerr is an accomplished actress, with many excellent movies to her credit. This is perhaps her best, a role of great depth and feeling. She and her husband (Mitchum) are itinerants in Australia traveling around from job to job with their 14-year old son in tow. Their struggles to make a life for themselves, while still remaining true to their nature, is a great study of human nature. Kerr's short speech to her son, whom she loves dearly, ... Read More
Rating: - The Sheep Movie
I just watched this movie and have to say it is really worth watching. All the actors are great - even when they try to speak with an australian accent - like Deborah Kerr. The movie is beautifully photographed in stunning color. And the rest does the good script. The DVD offers a nice 16:9 widescreen-transfer. A short documentary shot in black and white and the original trailer.
My advice: If you like good movies buy this!
Rating: - The Sundowners 1960
* First-Rate . The Entire Cast is Exellent * It's tough driving 1.200 sheep across 400 miles of hostile outback but for drovers Paddy and Ida Carmody and Son Sean , it's the only job there is . Poor in possession , they're rich in freedom , adventure and love . Four-time Academy Award winner Fred Zinnermann (1907-1997) directs this warmhearted tale of 1920 Australia . Robert Mitchum (1917-1997) and Deborah Kerr (1921-) play Paddy and Ida , a devoted couple suddenly at odds . She and Sean ( Michael ... Read More
Rating: - The Sundowners
Filmed on location, this breezy Western from Down Under earned five Oscar nominations and has weathered well over the years as a mini epic about freedom and family bonds. Mitchum and Kerr square off nicely as hardworking but happily married roamers, and even manage to hold their Aussie accents in check most of the time. Peter Ustinov, playing a chipper ex-officer who comes to live with the Carmody family, provides some of the film's highest humor, especially in his flirtatious relationship with hotel ... Read More
Rating: - Just see it - you won't regret it!
Fred Zinnemann's on the top of his game with much better form with The Sundowners, one of those films that's so good that there's really not much to say about it other than to reiterate what a total delight it is to watch. It's a perfect mixture of great albeit largely invisible craftsmanship and extreme likability, managing to fill its cast from top to bottom with people you'd want to spend time with in a film without a single mean bone in its body that somehow manages to avoid turning into sentimental ... Read More
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