#Tom Burlinson

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The Time Guardian (1987)

My rating: 6/10

A perfectly cromulent morsel of 80s cheese - nothing that'll change your life, but quite entertaining. Carrie Fisher and Dean Stockwell are technically present.

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The Time Guardian (1987)

The Time Guardian is an Australian epic to which explaining the plot becomes tiresome… even for the writers who can’t be bothered to explain who the enemy is and why they want to destroy humanity.

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Thanks for the tag @wheel-of-fish! This was a fun one... My top 10 comfort films:

1. I Remember Mama (Irene Dunne)

2. The Long Long Trailer ( Lucille Ball)

3. Always (Holly Hunter & Richard Dreyfuss)

4. The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (Rex Harrison & Gene Tierney)

5. The Sound of Music (Julia Andrews & Christopher Plummer)

6. Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (Jane Powell & Howard Keel)

7. Both Snowy River Movies (Sigrid Thornton & Tom Burlinson) *I don't care if it's cheating, I couldn't choose between them

8. Persuasion 1995 (Amanda Root & Ciaran Hinds)

9. Canterville Ghost ( Charles Laughton)

10. Labyrinth (David Bowie & Jennifer Connelly)

Beauty and the Beast and The Secret of Nimh were contenders but since they are animated I will save them for another tag game... Honorable mentions that almost made the list are Sabrina (Audrey Hepburn), Cheaper by the Dozen (The 1950 version with Myrna Loy), The Shop Around the Corner (Jimmy Stewart & Margaret Sullavan), and The Quiet Man, and Yours Mine & Ours ( the original with Lucille Ball & Henry Fonda)

Tagging with no pressure @battydings, @illuminaughti-online, @from-aldebaran, @jennyfair7, @ladystormcrow

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Franklin Shepard

James Weissenbach (1981), Jim Walton (1981), John Rubenstein (1985), Victor Garber (1990), Malcolm Gets (1994), Tom Burlinson (1996), Julian Ovenden (2000), Tyler Ross (2002), Michael Hayden (2002), Will Gartshore (2007), Colin Donnell (2012), Mark Umbers (2012), Aaron Lazar (2016), Ben Steinfeld (2019), Andrew Coshan (2021), Jonathan Groff (2022), Paul Mescal (film, approx. 2039).

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For the ask game 77, 81, 84? And like feel free to answer any of the other ones if you want to!

Thank you for the asks! Hmmmm...

77. Have you ever laughed until something you were drinking came out your nose?

Yes. And it hurt! I wouldn't advise it!

81. Have you ever made out in a park?

Sadly, no. My love life is so freaking boring. That's why I write romance! LOL

84. Have you ever got your tongue stuck to a flag pole?

Not a flag pole. If I remember correctly, it was the metal railing on our front steps. That was a long time ago; I learned my lesson, I guess! 😂

And I'm gonna do this one, because there is a list!

82. Have you ever dream that you married someone?

Let's see... Harrison Ford (and Han Solo), Dwight Schultz (and H.M. Murdock), David Duchovny (and Mulder), Tom Burlinson (and Jim Craig), Joe Flanigan (and John Sheppard), and of course Oscar Isaac (and Poe, the Moon Boys, Santiago, Nathan [well, a version of Nathan], Evgeni, Leto, and Mona's Rydal.) Also there is that hazy, ephemeral guy that sometimes resembles one of the above, but also real life men I've known, who isn't a celebrity, loves animals, is rich (or at least richer than me), and loves me to distraction.

I dream a lot.

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Check out this listing I just added to my Poshmark closet: Return to Snowy River 1988 VHS Movie Disney Tom Burlinson Rated PG 012257699036.

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The Time Guardian (1987) Filmpac Holdings Dir. Brian Hannant

Tom Burlinson as Ballard

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On 5 November 1982, "The Man From Snowy River" was released in the United States. It's one of the first things I remember watching as a little girl and I've loved it all my life.

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Kangaroo Westerns!

After my last post about “The Overlanders”, I wanted to share some more Australian made westerns that I like. I’m building a list of the best ones to share.  Today’s is “The Man from Snowy River”(1982)

So, this movie and the Banjo Patterson poem it’s inspired by have a legendary status. It’s part of the framework of Australia and it is everywhere. It inspired festivals and arena shows, imagery from it was even used to open the Olympic Games in 2000. 

The movie centers on eighteen year old Jim Craig (Tom Burlinson), who lives on a homestead in the Snowy Mountains in Victoria with his father, Henry. 

Henry is killed in an accident involving a mob of brumbies, wild horses. The brumbies are lead by a black stallion. This stallion is a character in itself. He’s smart, aggressive and dangerous. There’s something very foreboding and terrifying about the stallion. 

Jim is told by other mountain men that he has to earn the right to live in the mountains before he can call his fathers land his own. He heads down the mountains to find work.  A close friend of his father, Spur (Kirk Douglas), gives Jim a mountain horse as Jim’s own horse had escaped and joined the brumbies. 

Fun fact. This movie has Kirk Douglas playing a double roll. He plays estranged twin brothers, Spur and Harrison. 

Spur is a miner, who’s been working on the same mine for twenty years with no luck but is convinced the gold is there. Harrison is a wealthy cattle rancher. 

Jim gets a job working for Harrison and starts to fall in love with Harrison’s daughter, Jessica (Sigrid Thornton). 

Harrison has recently bought a prize colt. The last colt foaled by the thoroughbred Old Regret and worth 1000 pounds (About a quarter million dollars today)

The colt needs to be saddle-broken and while Harrison’s away, Jim and Jessica work on breaking in the colt. Jim’s approach is different to the others. He gains the horses trust before trying to ride it. (I think it was believed that by breaking a horse gently it would become to docile and useless. Something that’s none today to be false.)

When Harrison finds out that Jim and Jessica were working with the valuable horse, he explode in anger. Jessica flees into the mountains, looking for Jim who went out to retrieve some stray cattle. Lost in a storm, Jessica falls from a cliff and is trapped on a ledge overnight. Th next day Jim finds her and pulls her to safety. 

(Everyone remember the Rawhide episode where Gil pulled Rowdy from the well? Like that)

Jim takes Jessica to Spur’s place to meet the uncle she never knew existed and begins to learn her family’s secret history.  After they bring Jessica home, the truth is revealed about Spur and Harrison’s story. They had both been in love with the same girl, Matilda. She couldn’t decide which brother to marry, so she said whoever became wealthy first she would marry. Spur tried to mine for gold. Harrison got lucky in a horse race. Matilda married Harrison but he was jealous and possessive.  Spur gifted her a horse, the first colt of Old Regret. Fearing Harrison would kill the horse, she set it free. Spur saw the horse was loose and went to tell Matilda. Harrison saw them together, assumed they were having an affair and shot his brother. Spur lost a leg from the injury. Matilda later died giving birth to Jessica.  The colt Matilda set free joined the brumbies and is now their leader, the black stallion. 

Harrison fires Jim to get him away from Jessica. That same night, some ranch hands set the prize colt loose hoping Jim will be blamed. 

A call is put out for all riders to track down the brumbies and get back the colt. Jim comes back to join them and is defended by Clancy (Jack Thompson), a well respected horseman who was friends with Jim’s father. 

This is where the most iconic part of the movie is, the scene from the poem.  The riders find the brumbies and give chase through the scrub land and forest, until they come to the top of an extremely steep slope. The brumbies go over, but the riders stop, unable to take on the slope. Except Jim, who just goes straight over the edge. The combination of his riding skill and his mountain horse makes him able to survive the decent and keep up with the brumbies. 

( I have been told this scene must be watched on big screen for full effect) (This is also not stunt doubles or trick photography. That’s actually the actor riding a horse down a cliff. It was filmed in one take)

The other rides loose sight of Jim and the brumbies, assuming the chase lost. 

Jim, however, keeps up the chase, eventually bringing them to a stop and facing down the stallion. 

Capturing and facing down the stallion is both closure for his father because he’s won over the thing that caused his father’s death. It’s also an unspoken right of passage for Jim. The stallion is the toughest thing in the mountains. He’s just outlasted and outsmarted this legendary being. He’s become a man and earned the right to live on the mountain by defeating the stallion. 

Jim takes the brumbies back to Harrison’s. Before leaving, he states that he’ll return for his share of the horses and for Jessica if she wants him (She does). 

Now worthy of the mountains, Jim returns to his homestead. 

So. That’s “The Man from Snowy River”. Like I said at the top, this story is such a big part of Australian culture. But it’s also a really beautifully made movie.  It really is art. Look at some of these shots.

  The cinematography is gorgeous. And the music is beautiful. Here’s a link for the main theme.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tq8bufY8xRk

This is one of the best kangaroo westerns. It’s a classic. 

Also something cool. Jim’s homestead, known as Craig’s Hut, is still there. You can hike or drive to it, go there for picnics. I haven’t had the chance to visit it yet but I will as soon as I get the chance. 

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Characters: Jim Craig and Jessica Harrison Craig

Media: The Man from Snowy River series

Played by: Tom Burlinson and Sigrid Thornton

Setting: 1880s, Australia

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Flesh+Blood (1985), dir. Paul Verhoeven

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Tom Burlinson speaks about Sigrid Thornton and their chemistry in The Man From Snowy River in an article from Sunday Life Magazine within The Age - Feb 15, 2020 

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🎥 The Man From Snowy River