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Directed by | George T. Miller |
Screenplay by | John Dixon |
Story by | Fred Cul Cullen |
Based on | The Man from Snowy River by Banjo Paterson |
Produced by | Geoff Burrowes Michael Edgley Simon Wincer |
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Cinematography | Keith Wagstaff |
Edited by | Adrian Carr |
Music by | Bruce Rowland |
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Running time | 102 minutes |
Country | Australia |
Language | English |
Budget | A$3 million (est.)[1] or $3.5 million[2] |
Box office | A$50 million[3] |
The Man from Snowy River is a 1982 Australian Western drama film based on the Banjo Paterson poem "The Man from Snowy River". The film had a cast including Kirk Douglas in a dual role as the brothers Harrison (a character who appeared frequently in Paterson's poems) and Spur, Jack Thompson as Clancy, Tom Burlinson as Jim Craig, Sigrid Thornton as Harrison's daughter Jessica, Terence Donovan as Jim's father Henry Craig, and Chris Haywood as Curly. Both Burlinson and Thornton later reprised their roles in the 1988 sequel, The Man from Snowy River II (the film's original Australian title). The 1988 sequel film was later released in the United States by Walt Disney Pictures under the title Return to Snowy River and in the United Kingdom under the title The Untamed.