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Vintage featurette On Location With the Sundowners; Theatrical trailer; Languages: English & Français; Subtitles: English (feature film only)
Full Product DetailsDisc #1 -- The Sundowners
1. Credits [2:35]
2. Appreciation [2:29]
3. What Home Looks Like [2:24]
4. The Bite on Venneker [3:29]
5. Hoisting a Few - and Paddy [5:08]
6. New Drover [4:27]
7. Setting Out [3:49]
8. Soulmates [1:57]
9. Dingo Alert; the Batemans [3:47]
10. Money Worries [2:56]
11. Fire Danger [4:39]
12. Where's Paddy? [3:19]
13. A Lady and Mrs. Firth [4:28]
14. A Scheme and a Singsong [2:57]
15. Jobs for Four [4:00]
16. Crossroads Clash [3:32]
17. Sheep Shearing [4:33]
18. Life by the Bell [4:25]
19. Mother-to-Be [1:27]
20. Planning a Contest [1:08]
21. Beers, Bets and Bluster [3:51]
22. Baby on the Way [6:18]
23. Blessed Event [3:28]
24. Not Lookin' Past Saturday [2:53]
25. Change of Mind [4:23]
26. Shear Exhaustion [3:48]
27. Lucky Streak [9:28]
28. Sundowner [6:11]
29. Elderly Tune [3:15]
30. Season's End [1:53]
31. Bush Track Race [2:01]
32. Back in Bulinga [1:41]
33. Paddy Backslides [5:05]
34. Bulinga Cup Race [3:54]
35. Sense of Humor [2:56]
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. At first Paddy agrees but obviously does not know his own mind because in no time at all, he rebels -- though that is not the end of it. Peter Ustinov is also featured as Vanneker, a bachelor who comes to stay with the family, and Glynis Johns plays a hotelkeeper out to change Vanneker's non-marital status. Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide