Quigley Down Under (PG-13)
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This came out in 1990, and I remember having some interest in it at the time, largely because of the picture of Laura San Giacomo on the movie poster. But it must have been several years before I finally did get to see it. (I don't even remember if it was on TV, or VHS, or what.) I don't think I was very impressed with it, but years later I thought I might like to see it again sometime (if only to write a review). Well, now I've finally seen it again on DVD, in 2016. So here's my review.

An American sharpshooter named Matthew Quigley (Tom Selleck) is hired by a British guy named Elliott Marston (Alan Rickman) to come to Australia, where Marston owns a lot of land. When Quigley first gets to Australia, he gets in a fight with some guys who were harassing a woman named "Crazy Cora" (San Giacomo). Cora starts calling Quigley "Roy," and at first I thought it was a fairly standard ploy to get guys to leave her alone. But even once she's safe, she keeps calling him Roy, despite his insisting that his name is Matthew. It turns out she actually is kind of crazy, and really seems to believe he's her husband. Anyway, it also turns out that the guys he fought work for Marston, and had been sent to take him to his ranch. Cora also goes with them, as well as a couple of other women who are of no importance to the plot. When they get to the ranch, Quigley demonstrates his shooting skills. But then he finds out that he hasn't been hired, as he had been led to believe, to kill dingoes that were attacking Marston's livestock, but rather to kill Aborigines. He's unwilling to do that, and gets into another fight. But he loses, and he and Cora are both knocked out and left in the desert to die. Well, they don't die. Over the course of the movie, Quigley ends up killing a lot of Marston's men. He also gets closer to Cora, and we learn her tragic backstory. (It's rather understandable that she went crazy.) After that, she vacillates between thinking Quigley is Roy and knowing he's Quigley.

I suppose I should mention that we occasionally see some British Redcoats, with whom Marston has an "understanding." And there are some Aborigines who help Quigley and Cora. (So there's some National Geographic-style nudity.) Quigley also gets some help from a German gunsmith and his family. And... that's all I want to say about the plot. But I will say there were some genuinely amusing bits, in addition to all the violence and drama. And it was a decent story. Seemed to me like a fairly typical western, despite the atypical setting. Anyway, definitely worth watching a second time.