Sundowners -- a classic movie that exceeds expectations today.
The Sundowners. Starring Deborah Kerr and Robert Mitchum. Kerr is an accomplished actress, with many excellent movies to her credit. This is perhaps her best, a role of great depth and feeling. She and her husband (Mitchum) are itinerants in Australia traveling around from job to job with their 14-year old son in tow. Their struggles to make a life for themselves, while still remaining true to their nature, is a great study of human nature. Kerr's short speech to her son, whom she loves dearly, and shares a desire to live a more settle life with is memorable. The movie's straihgtforward approach and clear depiction of life in Australia is compelling. Outstanding movie.

The Sheep Movie
I just watched this movie and have to say it is really worth watching. All the actors are great - even when they try to speak with an australian accent - like Deborah Kerr. The movie is beautifully photographed in stunning color. And the rest does the good script. The DVD offers a nice 16:9 widescreen-transfer. A short documentary shot in black and white and the original trailer.
My advice: If you like good movies buy this!

The Sundowners 1960
* First-Rate . The Entire Cast is Exellent * It's tough driving 1.200 sheep across 400 miles of hostile outback but for drovers Paddy and Ida Carmody and Son Sean , it's the only job there is . Poor in possession , they're rich in freedom , adventure and love . Four-time Academy Award winner Fred Zinnermann (1907-1997) directs this warmhearted tale of 1920 Australia . Robert Mitchum (1917-1997) and Deborah Kerr (1921-) play Paddy and Ida , a devoted couple suddenly at odds . She and Sean ( Michael Anderson Jr 1943 - ) want a farm of their own . But settling down is more than Paddy untethered spirit can bear . THE SUNDOWNERS earned five oscars nominations including Best Picture , won Kerr the New York Film Critics Best actress Award and made Mitchum the National Board of Review Best Actor choice for this and HOME FROM THE HILL (1960) say g'day to a movie treasure . High Quality Transfer . Highly Recommended .

The Sundowners
Filmed on location, this breezy Western from Down Under earned five Oscar nominations and has weathered well over the years as a mini epic about freedom and family bonds. Mitchum and Kerr square off nicely as hardworking but happily married roamers, and even manage to hold their Aussie accents in check most of the time. Peter Ustinov, playing a chipper ex-officer who comes to live with the Carmody family, provides some of the film's highest humor, especially in his flirtatious relationship with hotel owner Glynis Johns. What makes a man wander? ZInnemann's "Sundowners" provides no answers, but it's sure fun to tag along.

Just see it - you won't regret it!
Fred Zinnemann's on the top of his game with much better form with The Sundowners, one of those films that's so good that there's really not much to say about it other than to reiterate what a total delight it is to watch. It's a perfect mixture of great albeit largely invisible craftsmanship and extreme likability, managing to fill its cast from top to bottom with people you'd want to spend time with in a film without a single mean bone in its body that somehow manages to avoid turning into sentimental slop. Robert Mitchum and Deborah Kerr, both sporting very passable Aussie accents, are a perfectly matched pair who truly do seem to belong to each other despite their differences while Peter Ustinov's scene-stealing Remittance Man who becomes part of their extended family by default is all the more memorable for not giving into the actor's instinctive tendency to overplay his hand (his scene about the captain's hat or his definition of being cashiered as "a promotion from the army to civilian life" are throwaway standouts). One of the best times I've had watching a movie for ages.

Along with a good transfer, the DVD also includes the original trailer and a four-minute black and white behind the scenes short narrated by the author of the novel the film is based on.