The Sundowners overview
Synopsis:
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.
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Movie Details:
- Director: Fred Zinnemann
- Studio: Warner Brothers
- Year: 1960
- Run Time: 133 minutes
- Country: Australia, UK, USA
- Language: English
- Category: Feature
- Genre/Type: Drama
- Filmed in: Color



