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Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested) Binding: VHS Tape EAN: 9786305962595 Format: Color, Original recording reissued, NTSC ISBN: 6305962596 Label: 20th Century Fox Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: 20th Century Fox Release Date: October 09, 2001 Running Time: 102 minutes Sales Rank: 3722 Studio: 20th Century Fox Theatrical Release Date: November 05, 1982
Description: With its unforgettably heroic story, its stunning cinematography, and acting performances that are uniformly excellent, THE MAN FROM SNOWY RIVER is one thrilling adventure you won't want to miss. Set during the 1880's, when the Australian frontier was as wild and dangerous as the American West, the film follows the exploits of a handsome youth (Tom Burlinson) who sets out to tame a wild herd of horses. Taking on a challenge many men had attempted before him, he rides deep into the treacherous and untamed wilderness of his native timberlands where boys become men fast - or die trying. Featuring Kirk Douglas in a remakable dual role and highlighted by a climactic chase involving 40 horsemen and 90 wild stallioins thundering across snow-covered peaks, THE MAN FROM SNOWY RIVER is destined to become a legendary film!
Amazon.com essential video: A conventional boy-and-his-horse story set against the red rocks of remote Australian mountains. (If there's a wide-screen edition, grab it. The scenery is one of the movie's strongest features.) Tom Burlinson is Jim Craig, a young man left stranded after his father's death who is struggling to save the family farm. He proves his manhood during a hair-raising hunt over the wooded slopes in search of an escaped stallion. The great, grizzled, Australian character actor Jack Thompson (the idealistic lawyer in Breaker Morant) is the tough, older horseman who takes the lad under his wing. The director, George Miller (not to be confused with the action-master who made the Mad Max films) allows costar Kirk Douglas to mug and grimace and prance far too much in a duel role as a pair of lovable old coots who hate each other's guts. Luckily, one of the coots has a handsome daughter (Sigrid Thornton, an Elizabeth McGovern-type with grit), who also has a way with horses. So it isn't all rocks and pine trees. --David Chute
Customer Reviews
Average Rating:
Rating: - Great Movie
This is a classic movie. It is the kind you will want to watch many times as the years go by.
Rating: - Still th Best!
Truely an amazing movie! The acting is perfect. The Australian landscape is breathtaking and awesome. The Man From Snowy River is still one of the best westerns made.
Rating: - The Man From Snowy River
This has romance, horse chases, and Australia. What more do you need for an entertaining movie. It's also a good, family movie. I have watched it many times as well as the sequel, Return to Snowy River.
Rating: - The most underrated film of the last 25 years
Beautifully made, brilliantly acted -- I could go on and on. The setting is as picturesque as a rugged heaven; the score is one of the greatest I have ever heard. Flawless...
Rating: - Man from Snowy River Review
This is an excellent movie for the whole family, with good action and nothing offensive in it. The photography is fantastic,and provides magnificent views of the Australian wild country.
