The Sundowners (1960)

Directed by

Fred Zinnemann

Genre

drama film, adventure film

Country

Australia, United Kingdom, United States

Runtime

2h 21m

Rated

NR

Rating

6.8 of 10 from 61 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

In 1920s Australia, a sheep-herding father wants to keep moving from place to place but his wife and son want to settle down. The family struggles with their different dreams.

slow-burnbittersweetgroundedtenderatmosphericfamily-orientedpoignantgentle

What happens

The Sundowners is a 1960 drama Western film film that tells the story of a 1920s Australian outback family torn between the father's desires to continue his nomadic sheep-herding ways and the wife and son's desire to settle in one place. The Sundowners was produced and directed by Fred Zinnemann, adapted by Isobel Lennart from Jon Cleary's 1952 novel of the same name, with Deborah Kerr, Robert Mitchum, and Peter Ustinov, Glynis Johns, Mervyn Johns, Dina Merrill, Michael Anderson Jr., and Chips Rafferty. In 2019, FilmInk cited it among "50 meat pie Westerns". At the 33rd Academy Awards, it was in the running for Best Picture, and Kerr was nominated for Best Actress in a Leading Role, Johns for Best Actress in a Supporting Role, Zinnemann for Best Director, and Lennart for Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium, with no Academy wins. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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