Adams Woman
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Director Philip Leacock Music director Bob Young Duration Language English | 6.6/10 IMDb Genre Drama Screenplay Richard Fiedler Country Australia
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Release date 19 March 1970 Based on a story by Lowell Barrington Writer Lowell Barrington (story), Richard Fiedler Cast Beau Bridges (Adam), Jane Merrow (Bess), John Mills (Sir Philip MacDonald), James Booth (Dyson), Andrew Keir (O'Shea), Tracy Reed (Duchess)Similar movies Mad Max: Fury Road , Self/less , The Rescuers Down Under , Walkabout , Blackhat , Rabbit-Proof Fence | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
A falsely convicted U.S. sailor (Beau Bridges) is allowed to marry a woman convict (Jane Merrow) and start a farm in 1840s Australia.
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Adams Woman is a 1970 Australian-American historical drama film directed by Philip Leacock and starring Beau Bridges, Jane Merrow and John Mills.
Adam is a young American wrongly accused of being an accomplice to murder while on shore leave in Liverpool. He is sentenced to death by hanging but the sentence is commuted to twenty years in a convict settlement in Australia. The governor of the colony has a scheme in mind to settle Australia by allowing convicts to marry and by giving them land, and Adam is the perfect choice to prove his scheme is viable. He is partnered with Bess, a young Irish lass, and together they endure the hardships of the Australian outback.
Plot
In the 1840s, an American sailor ashore in Liverpool is wrongly convicted and sent to the penal colony in Sydney, Australia where he enters into a battle of wills with the Governor. The Governor offers him a pardon if he helps pioneer new land for the growing colony. He marries Irish woman Bess and they establish a farm despite the harassment of bushrangers.
Opponents of the governor persuade a visiting Crown commissioner, Lord Croydon, to revoke Adams pardon. Adam tries to escape but is arrested. Bess pleads his case and Adam gets a full pardon.
Cast
Production
The film was originally known as The Return of the Boomerang. Chips Rafferty was listed among the cast early on.
The film was shot entirely in Australia with finance from Hollywood. The script, director, cinematographer and star were all imported. The film was shot in late 1968 and early 1969, on location near Nowra and in the studio of Ajax Films.
Reception
The film had its world premiere in Canberra in March 1970.
Adams Woman took $15,000 at the box office in Australia. Overseas reaction was not strong.
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