Or: A Fistful of Dingos, as Tom Selleck's Australian western proves to have a distinct flavour of spaghetti. Although the music is sub-Elmer Bernstein, the pacing and treatment of this long film is strictly Sergio Leone, with a nod to the horses on the move and towering outback mountainscapes that always feature strongly in director Wincer's films. Selleck is a 19th century Yank adventurer who travels hundreds of miles in response to rancher Alan Rickman's ad for a crack long shot, only to find that all Rickman wants him to do is shoot Aborigines from a distance. Selleck throws Rickman out of his ranch-house window, which earns him and the 'crazy woman' (Laura San Giacomo) who has attached herself to him, a one-way ticket to the middle of the desert. Or, at least, it should be one way. But this being a western where the hero never misses and the villain has expendable henchmen by the ranchful, you can guess the rest, down to the final shoot-out when the bad guys have Selleck at their mercy but decide to give him a gun. San Giacomo, rather overshadowed by Julia Roberts in Pretty Woman, is terrific.

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