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.

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.

The Sundowners was a financial failure in the United States, which Zinnemann blamed on the film's marketing as a newer version of From Here to Eternity.

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 ".

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.

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

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

* In 1959 Hollywood came to the newly resituated Adaminaby race course for the filming of " The Sundowners ", starring Robert Mitchum, Peter Ustinov, and Deborah Kerr.

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.

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

* The Sundowners, a 1960 film adaptation of the Cleary novel starring Deborah Kerr and Robert Mitchum

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

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.

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.

His other films included Caesar and Cleopatra ( 1945 ), Anastasia ( 1956 ), The Sundowners ( 1960 ), 55 Days at Peking ( 1963 ), Battle of the Bulge ( film ) ( 1965 ), Casino Royale ( 1967 ) and The Wild Geese ( 1978 ).

* The Sundowners ( novel ), by Jon Cleary

* The Sundowners ( series ), novels by James Swallow

* The Sundowners ( band ), a 1960s American rock and roll band

He wrote many books, among them The Sundowners ( 1951 ), a portrait of a rural family in the 1920s as they move from one job to the next, and The High Commissioner ( 1966 ), the first of a long series of popular detective fiction works featuring Sydney Police Inspector Scobie Malone.

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.

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.

* Article: " The Day the Stars Came to Nimmitabel .. The Making of the Sundowners " by Peter Goed @ Cooma-Monaro website ( includes photos from the making of the film in 1959 )

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.

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

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.

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.

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

He laughed at a story that he planned to bolt the party if he was not nominated.

Just this April she was nominated for the seventh time for an Academy Award for her portrayal of Eleanor Roosevelt in `` Sunrise at Campobello ''.

A former Democrat Hannibal Hamlin of Maine was nominated for Vice President to balance the ticket.

It was nominated in the New Times 1998 " Best Latin Influenced " category, the BAM Magazine 1999 " Best Rock en Español " category, and the LA Weekly 1999 " Best Hip Hop " category.

He was nominated to represent India to the League of Nations in 1932.

Johnson was nominated as the vice presidential candidate in 1864 on the National Union Party ticket.

The campaign was sure to be a struggle ; the Whigs nominated their " Eagle Orator " Gustavus Henry, and Johnson wasted no time in calling him to task for his " Henry-mandering " of the First District, as their debates made their way across the state from one county seat to the next.

However, he was not nominated in 1856 in part due to a split within his home state's delegation.

To fulfill promises made during the impeachment trial, Johnson nominated John M. Schofield as War Secretary, who was confirmed.

The book was nominated for the 1992 Nebula Award for Best Novel, the 1993 John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel, and the 1993 Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel.

Astrologers, nominated by the National Council for Geocosmic Research, acted as the astrological advisors, and helped to ensure that the test was fair.

Thomas was nominated to the U. S. Supreme Court by then-President George H. W. Bush, a position that required Senate hearings and confirmation.

In 2010, the Australian a cappella Quartet The Idea of North was nominated for an ARIA for their seventh studio album, " Feels Like Spring ", bringing a cappella music back into pop culture.

It was nominated for " Best Coastal Resort " in Scotland along with St Andrews in Fife, North Berwick in East Lothian, and Rothesay in Argyll and Bute.

In 1973 Andrei Sakharov was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize and in 1974 was awarded the Prix mondial Cino Del Duca.

But in 1952, when General Motors president Charles E. Wilson, nominated for a cabinet post, told Congress "... what was good for the country was good for General Motors and vice versa ," he inspired one of Capp's greatest satires — the introduction of General Bullmoose, the robust, ruthless, and ageless business tycoon.

It was also nominated for Best Make-Up.

Army of Darkness was nominated for the Grand Prize at Avoriaz Fantastic Film Festival, and won the Golden Raven at the Brussels International Festival of Fantasy Film in 1993.

The film also won the Critics ' Award at Fantasporto, and was nominated for the International Fantasy Film Award in the category of Best Film in 1993.

It was also nominated Best Film at the Sitges-Spanish International Film Festival.

Gianfranco Fini was notably nominated Deputy Prime Minister after the 2001 general election and was Foreign Minister from November 2004 to May 2006.

Penny Marshall's 1990 film Awakenings, which was nominated for several Oscars, is based on neurologist Oliver Sacks ' 1973 account of his psychiatric patients at Beth Abraham Hospital in the Bronx who were paralyzed by a form of encephalitis but briefly responded to the drug L-dopa.