Carabina Quigley

Titolo originale: Quigley Down Under

1990
T
1h 59min

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Alan Rickman, Laura San Giacomo, and Tom Selleck in Carabina Quigley (1990)

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Il tiratore scelto Matt Quigley viene assunto dal Wyoming da un allevatore australiano che paga un prezzo molto alto. Ma quando Quigley arriva in Australia, non tutto è come sembra.Il tiratore scelto Matt Quigley viene assunto dal Wyoming da un allevatore australiano che paga un prezzo molto alto. Ma quando Quigley arriva in Australia, non tutto è come sembra.Il tiratore scelto Matt Quigley viene assunto dal Wyoming da un allevatore australiano che paga un prezzo molto alto. Ma quando Quigley arriva in Australia, non tutto è come sembra.

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VALUTAZIONE IMDb

6,9/10

25.373

LA TUA VALUTAZIONE

POPOLARITÀ

3.603

934

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Premi
- 2 vittorie e 1 candidatura

Quiz
Alan Rickman decided to take the part because filming was taking place in Australia. He always wanted to visit Australia.

Blooper
Someone said an experienced rifleman like Quigley would not blow into his rifle as it would rust the barrel. In reality with black powder cartridge guns, people would blow the smoke out of the gun before it could settle in the barrel and the moisture from your breath would help keep the black powder from hardening and "fouling" the barrel. So it is quite reasonable for him to blow the smoke out of his rifle.

Citazioni
Major Ashley-Pitt: In our experience, Americans are uncouth misfits who should be run out of their own barbaric country.
Matthew Quigley: Well, Lieutenant...
Major Ashley-Pitt: Major.
Matthew Quigley: Major. We already run the misfits outta our country. We sent 'em back to England.

Versioni alternative
In the version shown on GRIT TV, there are a number of cuts to fit the film into the 2 hour time slot and to accommodate commercials, including the entire sequence where Marston's men attack Quigley in the nearby town and where Major Ashley-Pitt's army confronts Quigley after Marston's death, only to be surrounded by the aborigines.

Connessioni
Featured in Siskel & Ebert & the Movies: The Hot Spot/Mr. Destiny/Memphis Belle/Welcome Home, Roxy Carmichael (1990)

Colonne sonore
Shall We Gather at the River?
(uncredited)
Written by Robert Lowry
Performed by Laura San Giacomo

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Tom Selleck: man with a big gun

Lately I've come to the conclusion that the role Tom Selleck was born to play he was born too late in the world to play: the noble cowboy.

Tom plays the title character, Matthew Quigley, an American cowboy come to the land down under at Alan Rickman's invitation. Rickman (under used here)intends to use Quigley's abilities as a long distance sharpshooter to kill the Aborigines and keep them off his lands. Tom refuses and a battle of wills ensue as the two men try to kill each other and cause a lot of havoc in the process.

Despite a first rate performance by Tom, possibly his best, and critical praise, the film was ignored at the box office. I imagine that had it starred the likes of Harrison Ford, Mel Gibson or Tom Cruise it would have been a hit, but Tom serves the film well and he looks good in cowboy garb. Besides, it's an interesting idea of taking the cowboy out of his natural environment and placing him in a variation of his natural environment: the outback.