Minnamurra (film)

Minnamurra is a 1989 Australian film about a feisty woman who lives on a country property. It is also known as Outback and Wrangler.

Minnamurra
Directed byIan Barry
Written byIan Barry
Produced byJohn Sexton
StarringJeff Fahey
Tushka Bergen
Steven Vidler
Shane Briant
Production
companies
Burrowes Film Group
John Sexton Productions
International Film Management Limited
Distributed byHemdale Film Corporation
Hemdale Ginnane Australia Limited
Release date
1989
Running time
92 mins
CountryAustralia
LanguageEnglish
BudgetA$7.3 million[1]
Box officeA$72,462 (Australia)[2]

The plot appears to have been inspired by The Squatter's Daughter. David Stratton called it "almost The Man from Snowy River III in terms of plot and character".[3]

Plot

Set in the early 1900s in outback Australia, Fahey plays the handsome, athletic businessman Ben Creed, who vies for the hand of an Australian rancher's daughter, Alice, played Tushika Bergen. The plot revolves around rivalry with another suitor to whom she is initially attracted, the cattleman Jack, but also with a villainous creditor Allenby who is trying to secure the large Minamurra estate left to Alice after her father died. Saving her land, which is mortgaged to the hilt until Creed secretly takes on her debts and then falls into debt himself, involves driving 100 horses to a cargo ship for sale to Lord Kitchener to support the Boer War in South Africa. Ben and Jack are forced to collaborate to get the horses to the ship before it sails.

Cast

References
  1. "Production Survey", Cinema Papers, September 1987 p67
  2. "Australian Films at the Australian Box Office", Film Victoria Archived 9 February 2014 at the Wayback Machine accessed 24 October 2012
  3. David Stratton, The Avocado Plantation: Boom and Bust in the Australian Film Industry, Pan MacMillan, 1990 p68


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