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film by Zinnemann [1960]

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    • From Here to Eternity
      In Fred Zinnemann: Films of the 1960s of Fred Zinnemann

      The Sundowners (1960) was set in 1920s Australia and shot on location, with Kerr and Robert Mitchum as a husband and wife who set off with their teenage son to drive a thousand sheep a thousand miles. Zinnemann deftly conveyed this story of quiet heroism…

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    • Kerr
      • The Innocents
        In Deborah Kerr

        Allison [1957] and The Sundowners [1960]). Black Narcissus became an international hit and led to an MGM contract and the opportunity to play opposite Clark Gable in The Hucksters later that year.

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    • Mitchum
      • Out of the Past
        In Robert Mitchum

        …an Australian sheep drover in The Sundowners (1960), a vengeful convict in Cape Fear (1962), an aging petty hood in The Friends of Eddie Coyle (1973), and Raymond Chandler’s 1940s detective Philip Marlowe in Farewell, My Lovely (1975). More important, his shadowy star image paved the way for the gritty…

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