Editing The Sundowners (1960 film) (section)

==Reception==
When the movie premiered at the [[Radio City Music Hall]], [[Bosley Crowther]] of ''[[The New York Times]]'' called the film an "especially appropriate entertainment for the Christmas holidays"; according to Crowther:<ref name="nyt1960"/>
<blockquote>What is nice about these people and valid about this film, is that they have an abundance of freshness, openness, and vitality. The action scenes are dynamic&mdash;the scenes of driving sheep, shearing them, racing horses at a genuine 'bush country' track, and simply living happily in the great sky-covered outdoors. And the scenes of human involvements—those between the husband and the wife, of a woman having a baby, of a footloose housewife looking at a stove&mdash;are deeply and poignantly revealing of how good and sensitive people can be.</blockquote>

''The Sundowners'', marketed as a "newer version" of ''[[From Here to Eternity]]'', was a financial failure in the United States.<ref name=capua/> The film reached the top 10 at the UK box office and was the third-highest grossing [[List of Australian films of the 1960s|film of 1961 in Australia]].<ref name=reid>{{cite book|last=Reid|first=John Howard |title=America's Best, Britain's Finest: A Survey of Mixed Movies |year= 2006 |publisher= Lulu |isbn=978-1-4116-7877-4|pages=236}}</ref>