The Man from Snowy River (1982 movie)
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The Man from Snowy River | |
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Directed by | George T. Miller |
Written by | Screenplay: John Dixon Story: Fred Cul Cullen Poem: Banjo Paterson |
Produced by | Geoff Burrowes Michael Edgley Simon Wincer |
Starring | Tom Burlinson Sigrid Thornton Kirk Douglas |
Cinematography | Keith Wagstaff |
Edited by | Adrian Carr |
Music by | Bruce Rowland |
Distributed by | 20th Century Fox |
Release date |
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Running time | 102 minutes |
Country | Australia |
Language | English |
The Man from Snowy River is a 1982 Australian movie. It is based on the Banjo Paterson poem The Man from Snowy River. The cast included Kirk Douglas, Jack Thompson, Tom Burlinson, Sigrid Thornton, Terence Donovan, and Chris Haywood.
Both Burlinson and Thornton were in the 1988 sequel, The Man from Snowy River II.
The Man from Snowy River made $17,228,160 at the box office in Australia,.[1] This is the same as $50,132,946 in 2009 dollars.
Awards and nominations
[change | change source]- Won 1982 AFI Award for Best Original Music Score — (awarded to Bruce Rowland)
- Won 1982 Montreal World Film Festival Award for Most Popular Film — (awarded to George T. Miller)
- Nominated for 1982 AFI Award for Best Achievement in Sound
- Nominated for 1983 Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Film Australia
References
[change | change source]- ↑ "Film Victoria - Australian Films at the Australian Box Office" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-02-18. Retrieved 2012-05-04.