Word: offing
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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The Sundowners (Warner) is what the Aussies would call a bonzer bit of borak, full of the old whacko.
Adapted by Isobel Lennart from a 1952 novel by Jon Cleary, the picture serves a slice of life in the "outback"-the vast sheep steppes of the Australian hinterland. The hero (Robert Mitchum) is a sundowner, the Aussie equivalent of a rolling stone, who drifts from bush town to bush...
Thanks mostly to Director Fred Zinnemann, the story goes knocking along like a southerly buster through some bloody-awful bush between Nimmitabel and Jindabyne. Mitchum and Kerr sometimes sound like Aussies-come-lately, but on the whole they manage the loose-elbowed looks and snarly charm of the permanent residents...
Exodus (Preminger; United Artists) seems certain to become one of the most productive mints ever installed behind a marquee. Otto Preminger's much-flacked-about film version of Leon Uris' forest-felling novel-it lasted 80 weeks on the bestseller lists and moved almost 4,000,000 copies...
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