Das Pferd vom Snowy River (1988)

Das Pferd vom Snowy River: Directed by Geoff Burrowes. With Tom Burlinson, Sigrid Thornton, Brian Dennehy, Nicholas Eadie. Young Jim Craig returns to his home in the Australian high country. He finds that things are not as he left them – his girlfriend is being pursued by another man, and her father doesn’t want Jim back into her life.

“Tom Burlinson and Sigrid Thornton return in their roles from The Man From Snowy River based on the A.B. Patterson epic poem about the Australian outback. Burlinson has proved himself to be a master of catching and taming the wild mustang known to us Yanks as Brumbies. Now heu0026#39;s back but her father is just as opposed to Burlinson marrying his daughter as he was in the first film.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eBrian Dennehy takes over the role of the American migrant who came to Australia and made his fortune that Kirk Douglas played in The Man From Snowy River. But it was a dual part that Kirk played, he was also the neu0026#39;er do well brother who spent his life in the high country prospecting.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eSome folks have all the luck, the twin brother died and on his property only feet from where he dug was a mother lode of a gold vein. His fellow prospectors inherited his land and truly share in his potential wealth. Thatu0026#39;s something resented by Dennehy and the landed gentry heu0026#39;s part of.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eDennehy has some respect for what Burlinson has done, but he sees Thornton as marrying up into society and maybe as a part of a merger of families. Like royalty so to speak.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThe one he has in mind is the son of the local banker Nicholas Eadie who for our purposes is one Snidely Whiplash like villain.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eLike The Man From Snowy River, Return From Snowy River captures well the flavor of the Australian frontier. Sad that Kirk Douglas couldnu0026#39;t return, but Brian Dennehy is a more than adequate substitute in the patriarchal role.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eJust brush up a little on your Australian idioms and this is a well done story with a plot youu0026#39;ll recognize from a ton of American westerns.”