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# Quigley Down Under
- URL: https://tombeaverbooks.ghost.io/quigley-down-under/
- Published: 2026-10-05T19:53:38.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-06T01:20:00.000Z
- Author: Tom Beaver
- Tags: Book: Movies And TV, #Import 2026-10-09 17:51

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STORYCONTEXT: Tom Selleck, Alan Rickman, Laura San Giacomo, Dir. Simon Wincer, 1990

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Tom Selleck and Laura San Giacomo

Maybe the third or fourth time I’ve seen it. A movie that has a lot of satisfactions, not the least being Tom Selleck as a big, handsome, fearless, smart cowboy. The situation of him needing to shoot someone at a great distance, the bad guy getting farther and farther away as Selleck prepares his complex rifle — the suspense stretching till it almost breaks.

This is played out two or three times. A good demonstration of the storytelling power of motif.

The scenes with the indigenous people are heartwarming, and you start to see their unusual forms and faces as beautiful. Laura San Giacomo is irresistibly desirable: that pretty face, that petite body, that rack. Alan Rickman is deliciously sneering and heartless. The ending is suspenseful but it also plays out exactly the way you would have hoped. *\~ Jan. 1, 2021*