The Sundowners

With his mum Ida (Deborah Kerr), just arrived in a new piece of 1920'a Australia, young Sean (Michael Anderson Jr.) goes off in search of his dad, instead meeting the philosophical Rupert Venneker (Peter Ustinov, his first scene), in Fred Zinnemann's The Sundowners, 1960.

Opening scene, introducing leads Robert Mitchum (as "Paddy"), Deborah Kerr (as "Ida"), with their down-under accents and their son (Michael Anderson Jr.), from Fred Zinnemanns's The Sundowners, 1960, screenplay by Isobel Lennart from the novel by John Cleary.

Aussie Ida (Deborah Kerr) and son Sean (Michael Anderson Jr.) are trying to persuade dad Paddy (Robert Mitchum) to take a steadier sheep-shearing job, colleague Rupert (Peter Ustinov) joining as they meet hiring chief Quinlan (Chips Rafferty), in Fred Zinnemann's The Sundowners, 1960.

An Australian sheep-herder and his wife clash over their nomadic existence and their son's future in The Sundowners (1960) starring Robert Mitchum and Deborah Kerr.