Quigley Down Under (1990)

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Spirited, beautifully filmed western adventure stars Tom Selleck as Matthew Quigley, a Wyoming sharpshooter who travels to Australia to work for wealthy cattle baron Elliott Marston (Alan Rickman). When Quigley discovers he's been hired to kill Aborigines, he refuses, sending him head-to-head against the sadistic Marston. Laura San Giacomo, Chris Haywood, Ron Haddrick co-star; directed by Simon Wincer ("Lonesome Dove").

tom selleck gives the boldest performance of his career is this "new style, revisionist western with the panoramic scope of a movie epic" (los angeles times). fierce gunfights, forbidding landscapes, breakneck chases - all hallmarks of the classic western - are reinvented in this hard-pounding actioner that "revitalizis the genre" and comes out "a sure winner" (the hollywood reporter).
arriving in australian with nothing more than a suddle and his prized six-foot sharps rifle, american sharpshooter matthew quigley thinks he's been hired to kill off wild dogs. but when he realizes, instead, that his mission is murder - to "elininate" the aborigines from a wealthy cattle baron's land - quigley refuses and quickly turns from hunter to hunted. forced to wage a savage war against his former employer, quigley proves that no one gets the best of a steely-eyed american gunfighter - no one, that is, except the mysterious beauty (laura san giacomo, sex, lies, & videotape) who rides by his side and captures his heart.