Several notable films based on stories from Australian literature ( generally with strong rural themes ) were made in Australia in the 1950s-but by British and American production companies, including A Town Like Alice ( 1956 ) which starred Virginia McKenna and Peter Finch ; The Shiralee ( 1957 ) also starring Peter Finch with Australian actors Charles Tingwell, Bill Kerr and Ed Devereaux in supporting roles ; Roberry Under Arms, again starring Finch in 1957 ; and Summer of the Seventeenth Doll ( 1959 ), starring Ernest Borgnine, John Mills and Angela Lansbury ; and in 1960, The Sundowners was shot in the Snowy Mountains of New South Wales with foreign leads Deborah Kerr, Robert Mitchum, and Peter Ustinov but a supporting cast including Australians Chips Rafferty, John Meillon and Leonard Teale.

The Sundowners was nominated for Academy Awards for Best Actress in a Leading Role ( Deborah Kerr ), Best Actress in a Supporting Role ( Glynis Johns ), Best Director, Best Picture, and Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium.

Zinnemann was determined to film The Sundowners on location and vetoed Jack Warner's plan to shoot in Arizona to save money.

The Sundowners was filmed almost entirely in South Australia and New South Wales, including in towns like Nimmitabel and Port Augusta.

Merrill has thus far acted in twenty-two motion pictures, including 1957's Desk Set, 1959's Operation Petticoat ( with Cary Grant, who was married to her cousin, Woolworth heiress Barbara Hutton ), 1960's The Sundowners and Butterfield 8, 1961's The Young Savages, 1963's The Courtship of Eddie's Father, 1977's A Wedding, 1991's True Colors, and 1992's The Player.

Clement was in the initial cadre of fleet introduction of the F-14A “ Tomcat ”, a graduate of “ Top Gun ” and the Naval Aviation Postgraduate Safety Program, and former Commanding Officer of the VF-111 “ Sundowners ” embarked on USS Kitty Hawk.

Part of the movie, The Sundowners was filmed in Nimmitabel in 1959. The daughter of a local grazier also trained the ducks for the film " Babe ".

The success of The Sundowners, which ultimately sold over three million copies, meant he could write full time.

Mitchum and Kerr reunited for the Fred Zinnemann film, The Sundowners ( 1960 ), where they played husband and wife struggling in Depression-era Australia.

In Hollywood, Rafferty also appeared in Australian themed films, including The Desert Rats, The Sundowners and Mutiny on the Bounty.

They joined the tour on July 8, 1967, in Jacksonville, Florida, the second act on a three-band bill, opened by The Sundowners ( band ).

The basic riff of the song became a staple of garage bands during the 1960s, being used on such songs as The Weeds ' " It's Your Time " and Kit and the Outlaws ' " Dude and the Sundowners " and " Don't Tread on Me.

Hollywood also beckoned, and Rafferty appeared in American fare like The Desert Rats, opposite Richard Burton ; The Sundowners, with Robert Mitchum and Deborah Kerr ; and Mutiny on the Bounty, with Marlon Brando.

* The Sundowners ( 1960 ), starring Robert Mitchum, Deborah Kerr, Glynis Johns, Peter Ustinov-based on his novel, did uncredited rewrite on script

Upon leaving school and with his family relocated in Conwy, Lemmy undertook menial jobs including working at the local Hotpoint factory while also playing guitar for local bands, such as The Sundowners, and spending time at a horse riding school.

The Sundowners is a 1960 film that tells the story of an Australian outback family torn between the father's desires to continue his nomadic sheep-herding ways and the wife's and son's desire to settle down in one place.

She intended to send him a copy of the novel The Shiralee ( later filmed with Peter Finch ), but accidentally sent a copy of The Sundowners instead.

The Sundowners ( 1960 ), starring Robert Mitchum and Deborah Kerr as an Australian outback husband and wife, led to more Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Actress ( Kerr ) and Best Supporting Actress ( Glynis Johns ), but won none.

Petty and Tench played together as members of the Sundowners in 1964.

Several films, including The Sundowners, Hud starring Paul Newman ( 1963 ), Leap of Faith, and Sunshine Christmas ( 1977 ), starring Cliff DeYoung and the closing sunset scene in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade ( 1989 ), were made in and around Claude.

Johns received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress for the 1960 film The Sundowners.

Swagmen and Sundowners: Carrying the Swag.

Quorn has also been used in several major films, including The Shiralee, Sunday Too Far Away, Gallipoli, Wolf Creek, The Sundowners, The Lighthorsemen and most recently The Last Ride starring Hugo Weaving.

In 1960 he returned to Australia to play a sheep drover in The Sundowners, starring Robert Mitchum and Deborah Kerr.

These winds, known as Sundowners, are common all along the south coast of Santa Barbara County, but are frequently most violent in the Gaviota area.

His writing includes The Sundowners series of Western fiction steampunk novels, and fiction from the worlds of Star Trek, Warhammer 40, 000, Doctor Who, Stargate and 2000AD.

The Sundowners novels are a series of Western fiction novels with a steampunk twist by author James Swallow.

After complimenting Morgan and the riflemen and saying he was praising them to Congress, too, the ardent Frenchman added he felt that Congress should make some financial restitution to the widow and family of Morris, but that he knew Morgan realized how long such action usually required, if it was done at all.

To reach a still greater audience of location-minded manufacturers, our industrial advertising budget for the fiscal year was increased from $32,000 to $40,000, and the Industrial Building Authority's financial participation was upped from $17,000 to $20,000.

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