The Man From Snowy River

Inspired by an epic poem by A.B. “Banjo” Patterson, The Man From Snowy River was a major step forward for the regenerated Australian film industry of the early ’80s. This “down-under Western” spotlights Tom Burlinson as Jim Craig, a headstrong young man who goes to work for a powerful cattle baron. Burlinson falls in love with Jessica (Sigrid Thornton), his boss’ daughter, and becomes enmeshed in a bitter land feud. Kirk Douglas has a high old time in the dual role of hard-hearted landowner Harrison and grizzled, one-legged old prospector Spur. Previously filmed in 1920, The Man From Snowy River was directed by the other George Miller, not the director of the same name who helmed Mad Max (1979). A monumental moneymaker, the film inspired a 1988 sequel, confusingly titled Return to Snowy River, Part II., Golden Globe nominated Australian drama about a young man trying to save his late father’s farm and marry the woman he loves., Jim Craig has lived his first 18 years in the mountains of Australia on his father’s farm. The death of his father forces him to go to the low lands to earn enough money to get the farm back on its feet., The Australian bush is the setting for George Miller’s tale of an orphaned mountain lad coming of age., The story of a determined young man’s initiation into the tough world of Australian ranching, and his romance with an embittered cattleman’s daughter. Based on an epic Australian poem., After a terrible accident, the son of a livestock farmer is orphaned and forced off his land by mountain men who claim he must earn the right to his inheritance. He gets a job at a nearby ranch, but is forbidden from participating in a cattle roundup once he gets there. While waiting at the farm, he meets his boss’s daughter and the two fall in love. After her father finds out, they must navigate his disapproval and reclaim the stolen farm.