Warner Bros.
Directed by Philip Leacock
My rating: 2.5 stars out of 4
IMDb
(DVD, Warner Archive Collection)
Convicts in Australia are given a chance to win their freedom by becoming pioneers and taming the land. Beau Bridges takes up the offer and is given his pick of the convict women for a wife. He chooses bald, crazy Irish woman Jane Merrow. The odd couple set off together for the outback. Soon they are building a cabin and raising sheep. Others convict "families" follow. A gang tries to burn down the new town but they resist. Beau Bridges' character Adam is an unlikely leader of hardened convicts turned pioneers. He is immature and constantly gets in fights. His wife is much more the pioneer type: strong, committed, wise. He has none of those traits and so it is difficult to believe she would fall so much in love with him. Perhaps Bridges was miscast. Either way, since his character is central to the story, it tends to drag the whole thing down.
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