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Sundowners, The (1960) Movie Reviews

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Movie critics combined give Sundowners, The (1960) a score of 2.9315 out of 4

based on (13) reviews

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(1)

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Rotten Tomatoes - Reviews from the Nation's Top Critics

This sprawling saga of Aussie nomads in the 1920s is directed by Zinnemann with his customary tamed discipline and human realism, elevated by the solid ensemble, with particularly strong turns from Mitchum, Deborah Kehr, Peter Ustinov and Glynis...read the complete Sundowners, The (1960) review at Rotten Tomatoes - Reviews from the Nation's Top Critics

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Crazy for Cinema

It's hard to imagine that even in 1960 movie-goers would be interested in a film about a sheep herding family from Australia. When I sat down to watch this picture all I knew about it was who starred in it – Deborah Kerr and Robert Mitchum – and who...read the complete Sundowners, The (1960) review at Crazy for Cinema

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filmsgraded.com (Brian Koller)

With its Friendly Persuasion-styled combination of family adventure fare and high production values, The Sundowners was nominated for a pile of Academy Awards. It would be shut out, partly due to The Apartment which won five Oscars. The Sundowners did...read the complete Sundowners, The (1960) review at filmsgraded.com (Brian Koller)