Australian Westerns
by KasparM | created - 23 Feb 2012 | updated - 23 Feb 2012 | PublicDoesn't include lost films.
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1. The Rancher's Daughter (1925)
28 min | Short, Action, Adventure
Director: Harry Peake | Stars: Jessie Hinks, Fred Marple, Harry Peake, Hazel Smith
2. When the Kellys Rode (1934)
79 min | Drama, Western
The story of Ned Kelly and his gang. A policeman comes to arrest Dan Kelly, which results in him being shot and Ned Kelly going on the run with his gang. They rob several banks but are captured and killed at the Glenrowan Hotel.
Director: Harry Southwell | Stars: Jack Appleton, George Doran, Desmond Hay, Robert Ingles
3. Rangle River (1936)
Approved | 86 min | Action, Adventure, Mystery
Marion Hastings, absent from her Australian home, Rangle River Station, for many years while completing her education in Europe, receives a letter from Dick Drake, her father's ranch ... See full summary »
Director: Clarence G. Badger | Stars: Victor Jory, Margaret Dare, Robert Coote, George Bryant
Votes: 85
4. The Overlanders (1946)
Approved | 91 min | Adventure, Drama, Western
It's the start of WWII in Northern Australia. The Japanese are getting close. People are evacuating and burning everything in a "scorched earth" policy. Rather than kill all their cattle, a... See full summary »
Director: Harry Watt | Stars: Chips Rafferty, John Nugent Hayward, Daphne Campbell, Jean Blue
Votes: 519
5. The Kangaroo Kid (1950)
Approved | 72 min | Adventure, Drama, Western
Tex Kinnane (Jock Mahoney as Jock O'Mahoney), posing as a stage driver, goes to Australia to investigate a series of robberies at Goldstar. He makes friends at the saloon with Baldy Muldoon... See full summary »
Director: Lesley Selander | Stars: Jock Mahoney, Veda Ann Borg, Guy Doleman, Martha Hyer
Votes: 68
6. Return of the Plainsman (1953)
Approved | 62 min | Action, Western
The first of two commercially successful collaborations between Rafferty and Robinson is an Australian western in which Rafferty plays a legendary bushman known as the Sundowner who, with ... See full summary »
Director: Lee Robinson | Stars: Chips Rafferty, Henry Murdoch, Victoria Shaw, Max Osbiston
Votes: 21
7. Whiplash (1960–1961)
30 min | Western
The story of American Christopher Cobb and his foundation of Australia's first coach-line, which he established in the colony of New South Wales, Australia.
Stars: Peter Graves, Tony Wickert, Robert Tudawali, Phillip Ross
Votes: 89
8. Inn of the Damned (1975)
R | 118 min | Crime, Horror, Thriller
A sheriff investigates why the guests at a local hostelry check in but never check out.
Director: Terry Bourke | Stars: Judith Anderson, Alex Cord, Michael Craig, Joseph Fürst
Votes: 500
9. The True Story of Eskimo Nell (1975)
103 min | Adventure, Comedy, Western
The film's unlikely protagonist is a mild-mannered window peeper named Dead-Eye Dick (Max Gillies), who spies on a Mexican couple.
Director: Richard Franklin | Stars: Max Gillies, Serge Lazareff, Paul Vachon, Jerry Thomas
Votes: 109
10. Mad Dog Morgan (1976)
R | 102 min | Action, Crime, Drama
The true story of Irish outlaw Daniel Morgan, who is wanted, dead or alive, in Australia during the 1850s.
Director: Philippe Mora | Stars: Dennis Hopper, Jack Thompson, David Gulpilil, Frank Thring
Votes: 1,865
11. Raw Deal (1977)
94 min | Western
In the 1870s, the colonial administrator hires bounty hunter Palmer and gun salesman Ben to wipe out an army of Irish Catholic revolutionaries in their stronghold. Palmer and Ben recruit ... See full summary »
Director: Russell Hagg | Stars: Gerard Kennedy, Gus Mercurio, Rod Mullinar, Christopher Pate
Votes: 62
12. The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith (1978)
108 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
After suffering racist abuse throughout his life - which intensifies following his marriage to a white woman - a half-Aboriginal farmhand finds himself driven to murder.
Director: Fred Schepisi | Stars: Tommy Lewis, Freddy Reynolds, Angela Punch McGregor, Ray Barrett
Votes: 2,534
13. The Man from Snowy River (1982)
PG | 102 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
In 1880s Australia, after young Jim Craig's father dies, he takes a job at the Harrison cattle ranch, where he is forced to become a man.
Director: George Miller | Stars: Kirk Douglas, Tom Burlinson, Terence Donovan, Tommy Dysart
Votes: 10,031 | Gross: $20.66M
14. Robbery Under Arms (1985 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 141 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
Fourth adaptation and first made for television of the classic Australian bushranger novel "Robbery Under Arms" by Rolf Boldrewood. Made by the South Australian Film Corporation during the ... See full summary »
Directors: Donald Crombie, Ken Hannam | Stars: Sam Neill, Steven Vidler, Christopher Cummins, Liz Newman
Votes: 239
15. Bullseye (1987)
93 min | Adventure, Western
In the 1860s, two friends, Harry and Bluey, steal a thousand head of cattle and trek it across country from Queensland to Adelaide.
Director: Carl Schultz | Stars: Paul Goddard, Kathryn Walker, John Wood, Lynette Curran
Votes: 43
16. Return to Snowy River (1988)
PG | 99 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
Young Jim Craig returns to his home in the Australian high country. He finds that things are not as he left them - his girlfriend, Jessica, is being pursued by another man, and her father, Harrison, doesn't want him back into her life.
Director: Geoff Burrowes | Stars: Tom Burlinson, Sigrid Thornton, Brian Dennehy, Nicholas Eadie
Votes: 2,802 | Gross: $13.69M
17. Quigley Down Under (1990)
PG-13 | 119 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Sharpshooter Matt Quigley is hired from Wyoming by an Australian rancher paying a very high price. But when Quigley arrives Down Under, all is not as it seems.
Director: Simon Wincer | Stars: Tom Selleck, Laura San Giacomo, Alan Rickman, Chris Haywood
Votes: 24,573 | Gross: $21.41M
18. Snowy River: The McGregor Saga (1994–1996)
TV-PG | 60 min | Drama, Western
Inspired by Banjo Paterson's famous poem, The Man from Snowy River, this series is about cattle rancher Matt McGregor, his family, and their neighbours in the township of Paterson's Ridge in Australia's Snowy Mountains.
Stars: Andrew Clarke, Brett Climo, Guy Pearce, Sheryl Munks
Votes: 971
19. Lightning Jack (1994)
PG-13 | 98 min | Comedy, Western
Lightning Jack Kane is an Australian outlaw in the wild west. During a bungled bank robbery he picks up mute Ben Doyle as a hostage. The two become good friends, with Jack teaching Ben how ... See full summary »
Director: Simon Wincer | Stars: Paul Hogan, Cuba Gooding Jr., Beverly D'Angelo, Kamala Lopez
Votes: 7,244 | Gross: $16.82M
20. McLeod's Daughters (1996 TV Movie)
60 min | Drama, Western
Following the death of her mother, Tess Silverman travels to Drover's Run, the farm where she spent the first few years of her life. Drover's is a rural cattle property in South Australia, ... See full summary »
Director: Michael Offer | Stars: Tammy Macintosh, Kris McQuade, Mercia Deane-Johns, Simone Kessell
Votes: 459
21. The Tracker (2002)
Not Rated | 90 min | Drama, Western
Fanatic is a government trooper who is heading an expedition to find an Aboriginal man accused of murdering a white woman. Others in the expedition are the Follower, a greenhorn trooper, the Veteran, and the Tracker.
Director: Rolf de Heer | Stars: David Gulpilil, Gary Sweet, Damon Gameau, Grant Page
Votes: 3,299
22. Ned Kelly (2003)
R | 110 min | Action, Adventure, Biography
An innocent man becomes one of the most wanted criminals the world has ever known.
Director: Gregor Jordan | Stars: Heath Ledger, Orlando Bloom, Geoffrey Rush, Naomi Watts
Votes: 28,103 | Gross: $0.07M
23. Ned (2003)
81 min | Action, Comedy, Western
A comedy based on the rise and fall of Ned Kelly and his gang of Outlaws.
Director: Abe Forsythe | Stars: Felix Williamson, Abe Forsythe, Damon Herriman, Nick Flint
Votes: 408
24. The Man from Snowy River: Arena Spectacular (2003 TV Movie)
101 min | Comedy, Drama, Musical
Jim Ryan and Kate Conroy love each other, but John Conroy stands in the way of their happiness until Jim Ryan recaptures a prized colt.
Directors: David Atkins, Ignatius Jones | Stars: Georgie Parker, Steve Bisley, Charles 'Bud' Tingwell, Lee Kernaghan
Votes: 72
25. The Proposition (2005)
R | 104 min | Crime, Drama, Western
A lawman apprehends a notorious outlaw and gives him nine days to kill his older brother, or else they'll execute his younger brother.
Director: John Hillcoat | Stars: Ray Winstone, Guy Pearce, Emily Watson, Richard Wilson
Votes: 54,995 | Gross: $1.90M
26. The Last Confession of Alexander Pearce (2008)
PG-13 | 60 min | Biography, Drama, History
Eight men escape from the most isolated prison on earth. Only one man survives and the story he recounts shocks the British establishment to the core. This story is the last confession of Alexander Pearce.
Director: Michael James Rowland | Stars: Adrian Dunbar, Ciarán McMenamin, Dan Wyllie, Don Hany
Votes: 690
27. Dark Frontier (2009)
R | 96 min | Drama, History, Thriller
1902....the Australian Federation is a year old. Twelve year-old Tom's beloved father, Nat, has dragged him and his sister, Sarah, to an isolated farm at the edge of the woods. But Nat's ... See full summary »
Director: Kriv Stenders | Stars: Aden Young, Toby Wallace, Hanna Mangan Lawrence, Pip Miller
Votes: 319
28. Shadows of the Past (2009)
PG | 104 min | Drama, Western
Steve Kelly, a retired rodeo champion, accepts a rematch with notorious bucking bull, 'Black Friday', the same bull that ended his career several years ago. Steve also must deal with the return of estranged wife Dannii.
Director: Warren Ryan | Stars: Jordanna Allen, David Barry, Justin Colquhoun, Phil Hearn
Votes: 93
29. Red Hill (2010)
R | 95 min | Drama, Thriller, Western
A young police officer must survive his first day's duty in a small country town.
Director: Patrick Hughes | Stars: Ryan Kwanten, Steve Bisley, Tommy Lewis, Claire van der Boom
Votes: 9,087 | Gross: $0.02M
30. Wild Boys (2011)
60 min | Adventure, Drama, Western
Australia 1860s, Wild Boys follows a gang of bushrangers as they stage hold-ups determined to keep ahead of the troopers or wind up at the end of a noose.
Stars: Daniel MacPherson, Michael Dorman, Alexander England, Zoe Ventoura
Votes: 501
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