Man From Snowy River

Release Date: 2001-10-09, Rating PG (Parental Guidance Suggested),

Release Date: 2002-05-28, Rating PG (Parental Guidance Suggested),

Release Date: 2002-05-28, Rating PG (Parental Guidance Suggested),

DVDs. Man From Snowy River

After his father's death young Jim Craig Tom Burlinson leaves his home in the Snowy River valley to work for a wealthy landlord who happens to be the estranged twin brother of Jim's mentor a grizzled old prospector both twins are played by Kirk Douglas. While fighting to earn his spurs by breaking a herd of wild horses Jim falls in love with his employer's spunky daughter Jessica Sigrid Thornton. When one of the horses escapes and the blame falls on Jim the boy must return to the Australian hills where he grew up in order to find the horse and come back a man.

After his father's death young Jim Craig Tom Burlinson leaves his home in the Snowy River valley to work for a wealthy landlord who happens to be the estranged twin brother of Jim's mentor a grizzled old prospector both twins are played by Kirk Douglas. While fighting to earn his spurs by breaking a herd of wild horses Jim falls in love with his employer's spunky daughter Jessica Sigrid Thornton. When one of the horses escapes and the blame falls on Jim the boy must return to the Australian hills where he grew up in order to find the horse and come back a man.

Action - general DVD - Inspired by an epic poem by A.B. "Banjo" Patterson, The Man From Snowy River was a major step forward for the regenerated Australian film industry of the early '80s. This "down-under Western" spotlights Tom Burlinson as Jim Craig, a headstrong young man who goes to work for a powerful cattle baron. Burlinson falls in love with Jessica (Sigrid Thornton), his boss' daughter, and becomes enmeshed in a bitter land feud. Kirk Douglas has a high old time in the dual role of hard-hearted landowner Harrison and grizzled, one-legged old prospector Spur. Previously filmed in 1920, The Man From Snowy River was directed by the other George Miller, not the director of the same name who helmed Mad Max (1979). A monumental moneymaker, the film inspired a 1988 sequel, confusingly titled Return to Snowy River, Part II. - The Man from Snowy River (DVD)