Actors: Deborah Kerr,Robert Mitchum,Peter Ustinov,Glynis Johns,Dina Merrill,Chips Rafferty,Michael Anderson Jr.,Lola Brooks,Wylie Watson,John Meillon,Ronald Fraser,Gerry Duggan,Leonard Teale,Peter Carver,Dick Bentley
Genre: Year: 1960
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So Paddy (Mitchum) and Ida (Kerr) are a warm and well-adjusted couple with one grown son, except for one argumentthe struggle between his love of being a wanderer and her fundamental desire for the stability of a home
Paddy was a man who couldn't settle in one place
For him, most places were fit only for arrivals and departures
The filmwhich constantly endeavored to show the Australian woman's compassion for the problems of women in a big male societyis also a happy celebration with other notable participants being Glynis Johns as an awfully pleasant barmaid-innkeeper who loves men's company and knows how to deal with them; Peter Ustinov as an educated but slightly mysterious Englishman, a likable drifter, a kind of an elderly turtle who wears a nautical cap, with wealth of experience, but not much of a mind to make use of it
This turtle signs on as a drover with Paddy, apparently not so much for a job but for something to pass the time
Outstanding is a scene in which Ida, as a woman with no makeup, sitting on the wagon, spots in the window of a stationary train a well-dressed woman who obviously has all the things she doesn't"