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Quigley Down Under is the western part of the film released theatrically in 1990. Quigley Down Under was originally scheduled to star Steve McQueen in 1980, but after an illness, the STAR project was suspended and did not filmed until a decade later. Director: Simon Wincer, the film lasts 119 minutes, and it is rated PG-13, USA.
Tom Selleck plays titular Matthew Quigley, the cowboy and the gunman from America with a keen eye and, in particular, modified rifle, with whom he or she can plug extraordinary distances. Quigley's weapon of choice is a sharp 1874 Buffalo Rifle fires which .45-110 paper patch black powder cartridges. Its barrel is 34 inches long, which is why it is four inches longer than the unmodified rifle. He is responsible for the ad, asking for men with a special talent to long-distance shooting, the job of Australia. On arriving, he has to meet the workers' man, who hired him, Elliot Marston (Alan Rickman), and taken to Marston's homestead in the Western Australian outback.

Marston is a gentleman infatuated with stories of quick-draw gunslingers, the Wild West, believing himself was born in the wrong continent, and surprised at the fact that Quigley has actually been a Dodge City. He Quigley pay to come to Australia, hopes that the Quigley used his sharpshooting skills to help root out the native aborigines. Quigley says the idea abhorrent, and two men are quickly labeled the showdown.

Laura San Giacomo provides comic relief and love on "Crazy Cora." Having suffered a frightening personal tragedy a few years before the film's story begins, Cora seems to think that Quigley has been on his Estranged husband, Roy. When at the end of the movie, and the viewer will leave some doubt as to how crazy he really is.

When Quigley turns down Marston, Marston has his men dump Quigley, and Cora, the Australian Outback, where there is no water and little chance of survival. Thank you for your help group of aborigines, Quigley and Cora alive to save the other aborigines from Marston men, including orphaned baby who will help Cora to overcome his tragic past. As the story progresses, Marston will lose more and more men Quigley, until a final showdown, which leaves Quigley standing to face a hostile British major. Here, too, in cooperation with aborigines, Quigley makes clear. The film ends Quigley and Cora purchase of passage on the next ship in America.