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But it’s hard on us women. The men come here because of the sheep and we come here because of the men and most of us finish up looking like the sheep — wrinkled faces, knotty hair, not even much of our own minds.’ Jean replies, .
Carmody.’ She ain’t kidding. Ida has to hold her own against her beer- and gambling- loving husband Paddy (Robert Mitchum), who as a sheep drover in 1. Australia, keeps his family — Ida and their teenage son Sean (Michael Anderson Jr.) — moving with the sheep. Paddy is happy not being tied down, but Ida and Sean want a place to settle down and convince Paddy to take a job as a sheep- shearer in order to make a down payment on a farm. Paddy doesn’t realize it though, and the struggle between Paddy, who wants to be free, and Ida, who wants a home, is the slender thread that ties Fred Zinnemann’s The Sundowners together. Pauline Kael once wrote that when a director dies he becomes a photographer — and judging by that criteria Zinnemann died early in the game, after 1. Act of Violence –and settles instead for harmless, beautiful films that win Oscar nominations.
This is the case with The Sundowners, with Zinnemann’s Australia so clean and mannered it looks like a fantasy land theme park where one could image an ostrich and kangaroo petting zoo, an outback brush fire thrill ride, koala bear safari, and a gift shop with Robert Mitchum action figures and Glynis Johns dolls.
But then there are the actors. Mitchum is all rugged charisma, Peter Ustinov is cuddly and witty, and Johns is earthy and fun. But Deborah Kerr is the dominate presence here. Her Ida is sexy, down- to- earth, chummy, and beautiful. No wonder Paddy keeps getting drunk. Sober, who would say no to her? I’d settle down with her in a minute.
There are a few refreshing touches here for a Warner Brothers epic from 1.
Sex is apparently easy and uninhibited in the Australian outback, maybe because people lived in tents rather than apartments. The film begins with Paddy and Ida in their tent cleaning off the soot from a day’s worth of droving and Ida sponging herself off and shedding her clothes in the process. The camera discreetly tracks past Ida to Paddy on the bed with Paddy commenting, . Johns as a hotelkeeper is also up front with her desires, prompting Ustinov to react by saying, . Unfortunately, Zinnemann’s direction smoothes it all out, like wool falling off a sheared sheep.
The DVD also includes a vintage on location short –On Location with The Sundowners — and the theatrical trailer.
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