This is a 1952 epic Aussie Western adventure in dazzling and glamorous Technicolor . During early 20th century Australia a young man who goes bankrupt is attempting to find cash to afford him to go back home and he'll stop at nothing to get it . The young called Richard Connor (Peter Lawford) checks into a Sydney boarding house where he's mistaken for an alcoholic rancher's long-lost son . The same night Richard attempts to steal a stranger , John Gamble (Richard Boone) , but when he finds out that this person too is broke , they befriend , join forces and decide together to steal a local gambling house . Just by chance , they meet the drunk rancher (Finlay Currie) again. The rancher insists the young Richard is his lost son . When Richard and his robber colleague discover that , they decide to carry out a set-up about the long-lost son and claim the eventual inheritance . However , the rancher's daughter , Dell (Maureen O'Hara) , becomes an unforeseen obstacle to their twisted schemes . Then the two pals become rivals for the affection of the rancher's gorgeous daughter . A roaring chip on their shoulder---A rousing challenge on their lips! . There's a new word for Excitement ...There's a new name for Adventure . They're real people , fun people , fervent people. We see the wild aborigines of Australia dance the blood-tingling corroboree . They have a tremendous urge to keep breathing. Their rousing story comes roaring across six thousand miles of excitement...You are part of its blazing excitement...its elemental drama...its rousing laughter, all of which made 'Kangaroo' the year's record-shattering tops in entertainment ! Dedicated to the Pioneers who made Australia Great!. Adventure...As far as the eye can see! .The Cry of Mighty Adventure! . The continent time Tribute to greatness...to-night screen history is made ...as "Kangaroo," the first feature film in Technicolor produced by Hollywood in Australia, makes its debut before distinguished audiences at gala charity previews in Canberra, Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, Brisbane and Port Augusta (S. A.) ...memorable occasions to mark the beginning of a new phase of this great enterprise ...Soon all Australia will be seeing the motion picture that has excited world-wide interest...Two years to make but worth waiting for . A motion picture of Australia - for Australia - expertly made as only Hollywood knows how ! Australia as seen through the eyes of Lewis Milestone who gave you impressive films . Thrill to a new kind of outdoor adventure !
This is a nice movie that blends a renowned cast , the rugged country and the joyous adventure classic . A mighty drama of Australian adventure set in turn-of-the-century , where two criminals ingratiate and join themselves to execute a robbing and subsequently proceeding a complex swindle , but then things go wrong . An exciting , unusual and consistently dramatic action-adventure set in the Australian Outback , being first and only Technicolor production made in Australia and in which excitement stampedes the screen . As the cameras record the sight and sound of aborigines in the exciting dance of the corroboree and they have caught the thunder of thirst-crazed herds, the scream of the boomerang, and a bull-whip fight never before seen on the screen ; in addition we see Kangaroos , giant lizards , wombats, dingos, bull ants , extinct everywhere else for 60,000,000 years . Here stands out the moving and rousing musical score by the classic composer Alfred Newman and being well cinematographed in blazing and brilliant Technicolor by Charles G. Clarke . Interpretations are uniformly acceptable, all of them contributing fortright performances , stars the red hair Mauren O'Hara as the stubborn young confronted with all manner of prejudice and temptation to three suitors : Peter Lawford , Richard Boone and Chip Rafferty . As Peter Lawford as a young broke man who's wishing to take money at whatever cost to allow him to return home, though eventually falling in love . While Richard Boone's Gamble giving a magnificent study of cynical opportunism . Likewise the veteran Finlay Currie as the drunk rancher who has an extensive property.
The motion picture was professionally directed by Lewis Milestone . This one was a vintage filmmaker who shot a lot of films in all kinds of genres with penchant for warlike genre , getting some masterpieces . As Lewis Milestone directed the following ones : " Mutiny on the Bounty" , "Oceans' 11", "Pork Chop Hill" , "Halls of Moctezuma" , "Arch of Triumph" , "The Strange Love of Martha Ivers" , "Of Mice and Men" , "The General died at Dawn", "The Front Page" , "All Quiet on the The Western Front" , "The Garden of Eden" . Rating : 6.5/10 . Well worth watching . Essential and indispensable seeing for Maureen O'Hara fans.
