QUIGLEY DOWN UNDER (1990) | Finest Marksman In The World | MGM

Sharpshooter Matt Quigley is hired from Wyoming by an Australian rancher paying a very high price. But when Quigley arrives Down Under, all is not as it seems.
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Quigley Down Under (1990)
Directed By: Simon Wincer
Written By: John Hill
Cast: Tom Selleck, Laura San Giacomo, Alan Rickman
Rated PG-13
Available on Blu-Ray, DVD and digital platforms.
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[@mreyes8519]

snagging the bucket and jumping the fence first try is also quite impressive

[@FreddyJedd]

Looks like several cuts, he probably had as many tries as it took for each. (Unless there's released behind the scenes trivia I haven't seen).

[@mreyes8519]

@@FreddyJedd nah it was one take in quigleys world

[@jorgelozano620]

Yeah, there should have been a Finest Horseman in The World spinoff.

[@Flogge11]

Australia does not have cowboys, we have stockmen. Also known as Jackaroos and Jillaroos.

[@francus7227]

Have you ever seen The Man from Snowy River?

[@skyhymitch]

This scene is an example of excellent foley. Those rifle clicks are on point.

[@danieldavismusic]

Excellent foley and terrible sound design haha. the gunshots (especially the signal pistol) were awful.

[@maxmagnus777]

@@danieldavismusic the gun was supposed to sound awful. The rifle is supposed to sound mighty and finely tuned. That is how you introduce an excellent weapon and it's shooter in a movie. So I would say that the sound design is excellent. I will have to check again those little "tuning" sounds of the rifle. They must had been a sound of rewinding a watch or something that fine.

[@thedarkknight1971]

Talking of sound effects... And being a Motorcyclist... I H A T E Films getting motorbike engines wrong... A single low revving THUMPER does NOT sound like a high revving FOUR, a throaty V-Twin again, sounds NOTHING like a 4 cylinder race bike... 🤨😒 And John Connors little 50/75cc didn't have a 30 speed gearbox 😏🤣 😎🇬🇧

[@maxmagnus777]

@@thedarkknight1971 they use libraries of sound. I can get you that same "wrong" engine sound added in 10 sec. In order to get the sound of bike you want: 1. take it to studio 2. studio has to be big enough 3. record the sound and poison with gasses people in the studio 4. take the bike outside (by stairs) - most of the time And, now you have one extra sound of a bike to be used. It only took you 2h and mild CO2 poisoning to do it.

[@Moleskineman]

@@maxmagnus777 y'know you can just take a microphone to the bike, right?

[@wrsmith711]

this was a great role for Rickman.

[@micahfries7878]

Rip Alan Rickman

[@huma474]

Another reminder that Alan Rickman was one of the greatest actors of all time. Without him playing the Heel the entire movie would have been worthless.

[@a.mathis9454]

And the movies Die Hard, Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, and Galaxy Quest.

[@jonf2009]

Truly it was a sad day when we had to give ten points to Gryffindor.

[@Comicsluvr]

A hero is only as good as his nemesis. Batman proved that time and again.

[@keithsecoliadoesntevenhave1989]

@@jonf2009 agreed, Gryffindor is classless while Slytherin had Alan Rickman

[@aChewyGummyBear]

Guess you haven’t heard of Tom Selleck

[@cameronalexander359]

Tom Selleck AND Alan Rickman in the same movie shot in Australia! 🎉

[@grimlockago-go7784]

This is one of the movies that if i'm going through channels on TV and come across it, no matter where it is at in the story, i'll stop and watch the rest. One of my all time favorites.

[@tomtalley2192]

I was watching it last night on GRIT

[@jasonmaclean719]

Perfect way to introduce the hero. Just enough exposition, a display, and the point comes across mighty fast that person is SPECIAL.

[@betterinsodapop]

Yes indeed! A classic example of "show, don't tell."

[@jasonmaclean719]

@@betterinsodapop bingo

[@chrisbingley]

Not just the person, but the weapon as well. Kind of like King Arthur and Excalibur.

[@robertwaid3579]

After seeing that Tom Selleck, was & is one of the GOAT western Actor's there ever was or is. Thanks.

[@davidmagnuson1253]

One of them

[@sheehan92]

This was set in Australia.

[@dropkickirish4449]

@@sheehan92And?

[@jasonagodfrey]

@@sheehan92 I guess that would make it the... southwest?

[@VoiceOfTheEmperor]

Quiet, young one. Clint Eastwood is the best.

[@snikelfritz3955]

One of the most underappreciated movies of all time.

[@alfredshort3]

I agree. So much I traveled to Perth, Australia where some of the opening scenes were shot. Beautiful film

[@Billy-bc8pk]

Big agree. I staved off watching this film for the longest and regret doing so. It's a fine underrated classic with a fantastic score by the late Basil Poledouris.

[@elmatasesues3630]

OF ALL TIME

[@OneofInfinity.]

@@elmatasesues3630 ALL TIME u say?

[@grammar_shark]

Humble brag detected! Translation: "Everyone please take SPECIAL note of my above average appreciation of movies!"

[@chetarmlin1196]

I'm happy to know he's now gainfully employed. I see longevity in this business relationship.

[@juliescarff5286]

Brilliant film as ever Alan Rickman the best arch enemy.

[@outdoorlife5396]

Alan Rickman played a great villain, another couple of examples are Die Hard and Robin Hood.

[@QuantumShock1]

3:26 Not sure if the writers intended it be be seen like this but the way Rickmans character breaks Quigleys concentration was probably deliberate. In a firefight you don't have time to get "into the zone" like Quigley did in this scene so he was testing the man. Quigley understood what he was doing so he hit the bucket three times to prove a point.

[@GMoney1981]

From the shoulder with iron sights. Lol, good thing it's a movie and not a real "fire fight".

[@StUCaboose]

​@@GMoney1981*Simo Hayha has entered the chat*

[@Billy-bc8pk]

@@GMoney1981 *Ernest Jimenez has entered the chat*

[@GMoney1981]

@@Billy-bc8pk with his Swiss rifle from a rest correct? Again stay on point with my comment. Not some instant up to the shoulder 1000 yard shot at a bucket without accounting anything like wind, humidity, or the coriolis effect. So Ernie nor Simo are not in this conversation whatsoever.

[@samhavoc1066]

Has more to do with teeing off on a golf course than it would with a "firefight". Sniping is all about getting in the zone and setting up the shot.

[@onlynameMrBlank]

Hans Gruber's great grandfather.

[@lro001]

Cursed linage then….😂

[@1442GlennLane]

😂😂

[@mattsprayberry0]

Honestly , wish all job interviews went like that

[@thedarkknight1971]

Alan Rickman... MUCH RESPECT & RIP Tom Selleck... Himself, a SOLID actor... Quigley Down Under... UNDERRATED film... 👍 😎🇬🇧

[@lastEvergreen]

“Mr. Quigley… our new celebrity.”

[@Matt-vv7fl]

I love this movie. One of my favorite westerns. ❤

[@jwdundon]

We need somebody to get a message to Tom Selleck, give us one more quickly before he retires! BIG JAKE STYLE.....

[@jimmyj5035]

Tom Selleck has CEMENTED his Greatness as 1 of the All-Time Greatest Cowboys in American History with his Performance in this Film... "QUIGLEY DOWN UNDER" is Unquestionably 1 of the Greatest Westerns of All-Time!

[@found6393]

Chill, dude, this movie came out decades ago. There's no need to advertise for it.

[@matts1166]

Is this a Western, or a "southern", considering they are in Australia?

[@otravis676]

I love Quigley but my favorite is Monty Walsh

[@VITAS874]

Also this actor with rifle have cool movie about jail.

[@Glide1992]

@@VITAS874 What?

[@SgtGigawattz]

SUCH a good movie. They don't make great movies like this anymore.

[@GMoney1981]

Subjective, of course. But in reality, there have been many great Westerns since this film came out. Let alone films in general.

[@AndorRadnai]

3:11 The sounds are so satisfying.

[@deniswhitburn2626]

Tom's first movie with Australian director Simon Wincer (Lonesome Dove), a master of an American genre.

[@Beuwen_The_Dragon]

Well many people forget, Australia had its own ‘Wild West” Frontier period, and had its own outback ‘cowboy” culture. It wasn’t just the Americans to wear a wide brimmed hat and a six-gun on their hips. Alas, much of that culture was snuffed out of the Ozzies in the 80s and 90s.. Now they’re just ‘Hot Canada”…

[@MakerBoyOldBoy]

There was a planned sequel. Selleck gave s press conference wherr he snnounced that he was working on the classic western adventure novel by Clair Huffaker The Cowboy and the Cossack about s Texas herd of cattle driven across Siberia by cowhands. The movie never happened. The novel is unique and a treat to read.

[@otravis676]

Fun fact. Tom Selleck was the first choice for Indiana Jones

[@AllenNicholson-ug5fc]

@otr Incorrect He was brought in for what's her name to audition with but he wasn't on the list. Selleck was already contracted for magnum and Spielberg and lucas knew that.

[@Glide1992]

@@AllenNicholson-ug5fc Wrong. Google 'Tom Selleck Indiana Jones'.

[@Billy-bc8pk]

@@AllenNicholson-ug5fc Incorrect. Spielberg originally wanted Selleck and thought they could get him before filming began on Magnum PI with CBS due to the writer's strike, but CBS nulled that decision because they originally did want him for the role, and Spielberg told Selleck that if he didn't get him for Indiana Jones he would have something else for him after his contract was up. Selleck even talked about it at one point in an interview with David Letterman, joking he was still waiting for Spielberg's call.

[@AllenNicholson-ug5fc]

@@Billy-bc8pk I have the footage of the audition with selleck and karen allen in the bonus footage dvd from raiders. Spielberg explained that they knew they were never going to get selleck. He was brought in to see how well she would interact with him, but he was never really in the running. Selleck was overly aggressive in the audition with her which Spielberg didn't like. Any possibility of selleck getting the role was gone after that.

[@StormkoopaCV03]

Alan Rickman always reminded of the movie Die Hard. He played the villian role quite well.

[@VraelFreorhe]

Hands down one of the most mythical scene the MGM ever produced.

[@alfredshort3]

Not many know but a young Ben Mendelsohn got his start in this film

[@architectinth]

Where oh where have the good movies gone, oh where oh where can they be?

[@chriskirsten8221]

one of my fav westerns of all time Sellek was amazing in westerns back in the day!

[@woodworkingnut]

One of my favorite characters he played

[@job38four10]

This is my favorite part of the movie, and is my favorite movie with Tom Selleck, this also has the best bad guy all time to, Alan Rickman.....

[@exospaca]

A great film, and one I have long lamented never got a sequel where Quigley goes to Canada in Quigley Up North, Tom Selleck and Alan Rickman were perfect in their roles.

[@legend3706]

Underutilised talent. Given Tom Selleck's looks and screen presence. Its a shame he was not offered more such rules with stellar storylines. He would have been mentioned in the same breath as the great Eastwood and Wayne if only he had been given enough chances.

[@JohnWilson-zh3il]

If you haven’t seen it I recommend another Tom selleck movie “High Road to China”.

[@Billy-bc8pk]

@@JohnWilson-zh3il High Road to China gives us a very good look at what Selleck could have been like as Indiana Jones. The premise for the film was great, but it did kind of peter out toward the middle-end. A slightly bigger budget and better staging of the end action sequence could have put it in the cult classic category.

[@JudahMaccabee_]

This is easily in the top 3 tier for best scene in Western movies of all time.

[@joshmxvi]

Such a great movie. Pure Tom Selleck and pure Alan Rickman.

[@darrellhelbert7195]

One very good movie. If you haven’t seen it, it would be worth it!

[@matthewdeavitt9888]

Severus Snape at it again.

[@connorchristiansen1023]

You can hear Alan Rickman call his rifle "The legendary Sharps rifle"; Sharps rifles were some of the best long distance rifles in the world, and are the reason we refer to snipers as Sharpshooters.

[@dingapotamuss6213]

No its not! The Sharps Rifle wasn't in mass production until 1850s and way back in 1700s the Germanic regions ie Austrians and Prussians used the term scharfshutzen which is sharpshooter. Britain, around 1801 had developed a new regiment designed with expert shooters known as the 95th Rifles. Those who know of Bernard Cromwell will understand his fictitious character was Richard Sharp who served in the 95th; they were known as sharpshooters as evidenced in many chronicle records of that era and used the Baker rifle. Even Lord Nelson was reported as being shot by a sharpshooter and yet Christian Sharps has only just been born. So the term sharphooter was not from users of the Sharps Rifle but more a derivation from scharfshutzen.

[@aegeanghost6261]

When you need to rob a bank the weekend before potions class on Monday

[@joelfok7693]

Is that professor SNAPE?

[@user-ln4zr4pz4f]

As a card carrying member of the extended Quigley family I approve this footage. Stay out of jail guy's.

[@Szymon331]

Severus Snape dont die, he traveled to XIX century :D

[@Haldinyar]

Crazy shot considering he didn’t lay prone, that he stood for it.

[@jlkulbacki]

1200 yards would be a crazy shot even today with a modern scope sitting prone

[@GregHutton]

That group on the page is what, a little over 3”? That’s 1/3 MOA at 900 yards with irons. That’s almost super human.

[@hawkeye31k]

Underated flick. Bet I watched it 100x as a kid.

[@privatesector0422]

Never second guess the power of the mustache..

[@CrniWuk]

people really don't appreciate the acting performance of that bucket enough.

[@michaelogden5093]

The guy on the horse is the most impressive one because he actually did it.

[@RichardEllis-o4x]

Awesome movie

[@keithlincoln1309]

Total classic!

[@bymsurnt.4457]

Oh Richard and Snape

[@Punisher6791]

some cool facts about the film: The firearm used by Quigley (Selleck) is a custom 13.5 pound (6 kg), single-shot, 1874 Sharps Rifle, with a 34-inch (860 mm) barrel. The rifle used for filming was a replica manufactured for the film by the Shiloh Rifle Manufacturing Company of Big Timber, Montana. In 2002 Selleck donated the rifle, along with six other firearms from his other films, to the "Real Guns of Reel Heroes" exhibit at the National Firearms Museum in Fairfax, Virginia. The film was shot entirely in Australia. Scenes were filmed in and around Warrnambool and Apollo Bay, Victoria. Although several scenes of the story depict violence and cruelty toward and involving animals, a film spokesperson explained that no animal was harmed, and special effects were used. For example, Quigley and Cora are reduced to consuming "grub worms" (actually blobs of dough) for survival. A pack of dingoes attacks Cora, and she finally saves herself by shooting the animals. Those animals were specially trained, and were actually "playing" for that scene, which was later enhanced by visual and sound effects. Several scenes involve falling horses; they were performed by specially-trained animals and were not hurt. When a horse falls off a cliff, the "horse" was a mechanical creation. The film's producer stated that a veterinarian was on the set whenever animals were being used in filming.

[@digdug23]

double triggers helped so much🤣

[@RemingtonDean]

The double triggers are there to a) Reduce the draw on the trigger required for the shot, and b) stop the gun from accidentally going off.

[@Malrottian]

Really think that whole theatre of testing the wind and preparing was Quigley giving the rider time to get out of his shot. Gun safety first.

[@toddkes5890]

Testing the wind might be theater, but it also let him see how fast and what direction the wind was moving

[@joelschultz3652]

I loved this movie when I was a kid!! I saw it in The theaters

[@carchariasspartania3958]

"Fast is fine, but accuracy is final."

[@BattleGameplay1]

This is a great gun in Hunt Showdown and has always been my favorite.

[@The_Greedy_Orphan]

4:18 "You're hired, we leave for the Nakatomi plaza in the morning and should arrive at night on Christmas eve, remember we are a band of German terrorists but what we're really after are the bonds in the safe".

[@youtubehandlescostmemyusername]

By Grabthar's Hammer, you're hired.

[@gtcam723]

I really think the only character exposition that’s been done in a movie is when Viggo punches his son and explains what he’s done in John Wick.

[@UnicornKnight25]

Snape snape saverus snape!

[@mark_mellow]

Dumbledore!

[@deefective1100]

Quigley is the best marksman in the world because Hollywood said so.

[@redbarchetta8782]

Actually Tom is a very good shot, and has one of those rifles used in the movie. They are Sharps Shilo 45-110s, made in Montana and you can still get them for $4,142.00. They can shoot as described in the movie. 900 yards is not unknown, matter of fact the record was at Adobe Walls in Arizona territory and it was measured over a mile and was a 50-90 Sharps back in the day.

[@jaycollins9244]

@@redbarchetta8782 You are absolutely correct. My brother has a Shiloh Sharps 45-70 and I have a Remington Rolling Block in the same caliber and with those Vernier sights we can consistently hit clay pots the size of that bucket easily at 1000 yards, using Black Powder Cartridges.

[@nathangee7075]

4:00 Jeremy Allen White in one of his earliest roles.

[@timmyharrison9930]

The women on the left was in Mad Max 3 Beyond Thunderdome

[@thesouthforlife]

Amazing movie and scene I've watched tons

[@alanneebe650]

Finest marksman? Probably. Compared to other fictional marksmen. Still, a great movie.

[@GTFBITK]

I asked a CNN anchor to tell me what Quigley's gun is. They said its an Eh-ar fifteen.

[@MrSwiftmick]

Iconic

[@HappyDude1]

Are there people that can make that shot ? In that time and this time? Without using a stand

[@nahurod]

The good Sparks LRR...

[@KilliK69]

great western

[@libbypowell4278]

Yes, originally from up-over

[@samodhmadhavan]

Severus is good with muggle wands too

[@Anatole82]

THIRTY POINTS FOR MAGNUM..!!!

[@masterklaw4527]

Snipin's a good job, mate!

[@hgdon-homeiswheretreesare-9239]

It's funny in this movie, everybody carries guns, but this guy carries the biggest gun in the world; what a show off: the shot that heard around the world.

[@ValkyrieIA]

Great movie!

[@kleetus92]

Well done Mr. Cowboy... I see you're not just another vacuous youth...

[@matpoc39]

Eski zaman sniperı 🤠

[@ifacecamp717]

Sparks Aperture needs to get put in Hunt for sure

[@maxdejong4203]

First shot is a fluke, Second is “ Could he be really good?”, Third Time he’s an expert

[@davidcullen1956]

I heard that Quigley was big down under

[@erichanastacio9695]

Impressive shots.... More impressive if he hadn't walked several feet nearer. 😁😁😁😁

[@TravelNiBongz]

Mr... POTTTAAAA..

[@jimihayes2763]

That ammo must of been expensive and rare and he wastes two shots to prove a point

[@ZEPR0FESS0RR]

45 caliber is mighty big for a marksman round😂

[@doc_shady]

I've never seen this movie but the fact that Alan Rickman is in it as piqued my interest

[@user-zg1wz8fh8f]

I know I could use an additional four inches.

[@justicekreider2978]

I want that rifle sooooooo bad

[@razzaus1570]

Hey you got the job man.

[@machopi]

I CAST GUN - ye olde timey snape

[@commander452]

Love it the best

[@DominicMazoch]

Could you hit a seeker in motion in a Quidditch match?

[@lordbeezy1349]

Experimental book, with experimental spells, Mr. Potter?

[@VideoHostSite]

Great movie, but what the heII did Quigley think he was being hired for? He says right up front that he knows he wasn't hired to shoot wolves and dingoes. So he sailed half way around the world for a job that he absolutely knew was going to involve doing something he wouldn't be willing to do.

[@KazooieX1]

Mr. Potter.....

[@LivingTheDream21]

He cheated, he took several steps forward before taking the shot 😂

[@silvergalaxie]

the strange choreography of horse running time is much further than final show of bucket. bullet&powder combination cannot reach nearly a 1000yds@any elevation

[@dan3king]

20 points to Slytherin!

[@nickcc3065]

yikes

[@beatstreet570]

They um. Sound just like real cowboys.