Writer John Hill originally developed the script for Quigley Down Under in 1984 as a Warner Bros. An “Old West” expert, Jerry Croft from South Dakota, supplied the Western gear owned by “Matthew Quigley.” Most of the cast and crew, including director Simon Wincer, were Australians. The port city of Warrnambool in Victoria stood in for Fremantle. The fishing village was a museum replica of an 1860 port town in Meekathanga on the shores of Apollo Bay, Victoria. The “Marston Station” was built for $1 million as a copy of a 19th century “station,” or ranch, with animal pens, stables, outbuildings, and homestead house. Three months later, the DV noted that filming had recently finished. According to studio production notes in AMPAS library files and the HR, principal photography began in Alice Springs, the first of fifty-one Australian Northern Territory locations.
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