Quigley Down Under

Quigley Down Under (1990)

5 corrections since 9 Jan '17, 00:00

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Corrected entry: During the night-time firefight in the town, Quigley puts a 45 caliber, 500+ grain chunk of lead through a bad guy's thigh. Even supposing it didn't shred the femoral artery, it would have shattered the femur, making it unlikely that the evildoer could dash off into the night..

Correction: It's entirely possible the bullet missed both the bone and the artery.

Corrected entry: Near the end of the movie, a scene opens with the sun low over the ocean. But the characters indicate it's morning. In western Australia, the ocean is to the west so the sun would be low over the water at sunset, not sunrise.

Correction: Western Australia has an extensive south facing shoreline along the Southern Ocean. There are several sections of that coast especially along the Great Australian Bight where the shoreline faces east.

Except that this was supposed to be Fremantle WA, as you can see buildings from the first part of the movie where we were told that they were in Fremantle. The Indian Ocean is west of Fremantle.

Corrected entry: Near the end, on the mountain, Quigley is in a standoff with one of the henchmen. Suddenly he is shot in the leg, but there is no shot heard in the film.

cae80

Correction: Don't know if it was corrected for disc, but there is a clear gunshot heard accompanying the bullet strike on my copy.

jimba

Corrected entry: Quigley is an extreme long range rifle shooter. Why take on all Marston's thugs when he could easily take out Marston from long range? He proved he could take out Marston from extreme long range when he shot the two thugs next to Marston.

poehitman

Correction: Many reasons are possible. Quigley may have wanted to be sure it was actually Marsten and not (as we see in the film) one of his henchmen wearing his clothes.

Continuity mistake: In one of the final scenes where Tom Selleck has a gunfight with Alan Rickman, the time of day during the few minutes (in movie time) the scene takes place varies from noon (full sunlight) to dusk. Just prior to the gunfight, when Selleck is getting ready to draw on Rickman and his two henchmen, there are almost no shadows and there is bright sunlight indicating it is in the middle of the day. Just after the gunfight there are now long shadows on the characters and moments later the camera pans across the hills and the sun is setting.

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Suggested correction: Shadows exist before and after try to watch it again.

Revealing mistake: When Marsten's men are forcing Aborigines off a cliff, Quigley shoots one man who falls over the edge with his horse. Just as the horse and rider fall over, you can briefly see the rigging used to flip the mechanical horse over the edge.

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Trivia: The scene where Quigley triggers a booby trap by swinging his rifle from horseback, at full gallop, whilst holding it by the tip of the barrel with one hand, was only possible because an alternate aluminum barrel was created for that scene.

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Question: Why did the Aboriginal manservant hit Matthew Quigley on the head when he threw Marston out of his own house, after telling Quigley he wanted him to kill aborigines?

Answer: He felt that if Quigley fought Marston he might have been killed. He hit him to save his life.

SantaJim

Answer: In fact, it was more likely that in the beginning of the film he was in more of an "Uncle Tom" (for lack of a better term) and hits him because he feels he should help his "master." He later feels bad and by the end he has come to his senses which is why he doesn't make the same mistake twice.

More like he was emboldened because his master is dead. If not Quigley would have got a second thrashing from the aborigines.

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