Quigley Down Under

1990  PG-13  WESTERN  1h 59min

CAST— Tom Selleck, Laura San Giacomo, Alan Rickman, Chris Haywood, Ron Haddrick, Tony Bonner, Jerome Ehlers, Conor McDermottroe, Roger Ward, Ben Mendelsohn

MUSIC— Basil Paledouris  DIRECTOR— Simon Wincer

     Magnum P. I., himself, Tom Selleck, is displaced from the lush tropics of Hawaii and sent to the Outback of Australia… and bounced back a hundred years or so. Okay, so Selleck isn’t playing the mustachioed Magnum; here he plays an American cowboy named Matthew Quigley (still sporting that famed facial hair), a sharpshooter hired on by Australian ranch owner Alan Rickman. Rickman’s character soon shows his true colors when he reveals the true details of the job: hunt down and shoot any Aborigines that appear on the ranch. Quigley promptly refuses; the rancher promptly retaliates. What follows is an adventure for Quigley as he first evades the rancher’s hired hands… that is until Quigley acquires a rifle; then the baddies run like scared rabbits. A fun, old fashioned, old West (style) action adventure, with more than a touch of comedy. Sure to entertain from credits to credits.

OUR RATING— ***