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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, All Movie Guide

Deborah Kerr - Ida Carmody
Robert Mitchum - Paddy Cannody
Peter Ustinov - Rupert Venneker
Glynis Johns - Mrs. Firth
Dina Merrill - Jean Halstead

1961	Best British Film (nominee)	British Academy of Film and Television	Fred Zinnemann
1960	Best Director (nominee)	Directors Guild of America	Fred Zinnemann
1960	Best Director (nominee)	Golden Globe	Fred Zinnemann
1960	Special Achievement (winner)	Golden Globe	Fred Zinnemann
1960	Best Actress (nominee)	Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie	Deborah Kerr
1960	Best Adapted Screenplay (nominee)	Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie	Isobel Lennart
1960	Best Director (nominee)	Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie	Fred Zinnemann
1960	Best Picture (nominee)	Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie	Fred Zinnemann
1960	Best Supporting Actress (nominee)	Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie	Glynis Johns
1960	Best Actor (winner)	National Board of Review	Robert Mitchum
1960	Best Actress (winner)	New York Film Critics Circle	Deborah Kerr

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