Director Fred Zinnemann was riding a crest in the '50s with movies like High Noon, From Here to Eternity, Oklahoma, and his success continues in this western-style drama set in Australia in the 1920s. Ida Carmody (Deborah Kerr) is married to Paddy (Robert Mitchum), a sheep drover whose nomadic existence makes him blissfully content. Neither Ida nor their son Sean share his love for roaming, in fact, Ida convinces her husband to take on a job as a sheep-shearer so they can finally have enough to get a mortgage on a farm. At first Paddy agrees but obviously does not know his own mind because in no time at all, he rebels -- though that is not the end of it. Peter Ustinov is also featured as Vanneker, a bachelor who comes to stay with the family, and Glynis Johns plays a hotelkeeper out to change Vanneker's non-marital status. Eleanor Mannikka, Rovi
- Genre: Drama
- Category Marriage Drama
- Theme: Wanderlust, Foibles of Marriage, Starting Over
- Studio: Warner Home Video
- Run Time: 02 hr 13 min
- Language: French, English
- Subtitle Language: English
- Picture Format: widescreen
- Release Date: January 23, 2007
- Lead Actor: Robert Mitchum, Peter Ustinov, Glynis Johns, Dina Merrill, Deborah Kerr
- Supporting Actor: Molly Urquhart, Ronald Fraser, John Meillon, Wylie Watson, Lola Brooks, Michael Anderson Jr., Chips Rafferty, Gerry Duggan, Peter Carver, Max Osbiston, Ewen Solon, Mervyn Johns, Dick Bentley
- Director: Fred Zinnemann
awards
- Awards: Golden Globe Awards (1)
- Winner: Golden Globe Awards, Special Achievement, 1960, Fred Zinnemann
- Nominations: Academy Awards (5)
- Nominee: Academy Awards, Best Picture, 1960, Fred Zinnemann
- Nominee: Academy Awards, Best Adapted Screenplay, 1960, Isobel Lennart
- Nominee: Academy Awards, Best Director, 1960, Fred Zinnemann
- Nominee: Academy Awards, Best Picture, 1960, Fred Zinnemann
- Nominee: Academy Awards, Best Actress, 1960, Deborah Kerr
- Nominee: Academy Awards, Best Director, 1960, Fred Zinnemann
