Movie Kisses Series 5/8/2024 Quigley Down Under #prairierosepubs #moviekisses

Here we are at the fifth installment of my year-long look at The Kiss in historically-set movies.

 Recap of movie kisses so far:

January Kiss –The Phantom of the Opera 

February Kiss – The Princess Bride

March Kiss – The African Queen

April Kiss – Shakespeare in Love

The May movie kiss comes to you from the 1990 movie, Quigley Down Under. The casting is perfect:

Tom Selleck plays the American cowboy who travels to Australia in answer to an ad for a sharpshooter;

Laura San Giacomo plays “Crazy” Cora Cobb, a woman cruelly abandoned when her husband put her on a ship to Australia as punishment for the death of their baby;

and

Alan Rickman as Elliot Marston, the man who advertised for a sharpshooter and who is a nasty bit of goods.

We hope from the moment Quigley comes to Cora’s defense in the first minutes of the movie that they will end up together. We watch their feelings for each other develop during the trials and hardships they share as they survive the hardships of the Australian outback.

We experience a couple of ‘near kiss’ moments. When Quigley rides away from Cora near the end of the movie then stops and looks back at her, our hearts leap into our throats and our eyes mist over. We know he loves her, because he stops to look back. She knows it, too.

The business with Marston is unfinished, and both Quigley and Cora know he has to face down Marston, which is why Quigley leaves Cora behind. Right now, we’re a little nervous that they (and us) will be cheated out of their kiss.

But not to worry. They are reunited at the ship that will take them back to America. The kiss we’ve waited for doesn’t disappoint. It’s a happy, feel good moment, and we can’t stop smiling.

 See you next month for more kisses from the big screen.

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