Quigley Down Under is a 1990 western genre film, directed by Simon Wincer and starring Tom Selleck, Alan Rickman and Laura San Giacomo, and set in Australia.

Matthew Quigley is an American cowboy with a specially modified rifle with which he can shoot accurately at extraordinary distances.

After he identifies himself, he is taken to the station of Elliot Marston, who informs Quigley his sharpshooting skills will be used to eradicate the increasingly elusive Aboriginal Australians.

When the Aboriginal manservant knocks Quigley over the head, Marston's men beat him and Cora unconscious and dump them in the Outback with no water and little chance of survival.

Marston, who has noticed that Quigley only ever carries a rifle, decides to give him a lesson in the "quick-draw" style of gun fighting.

A British cavalry troop now arrives to arrest Quigley, until they notice the surrounding hills are lined with Aboriginal Australians and decide to withdraw.

It sold to Pathé for $250,000 which Hill said "is pretty good, when you consider that for 15 years I'd been making money optioning and rewriting that screenplay.

[5] It was Wincer who, feeling a good story had been ruined by numerous rewrites from people who knew little about Australian history, brought in Ian Jones as writer.

[12] The film was neither a box office hit, nor blessed with critical acclaim (except praise for Rickman's portrayal of villainy).

[13][14] A mere "formula" Western, in the eyes of many reviewers,[15][16] Quigley had the misfortune of opening almost simultaneously with Dances With Wolves,[14] which swept the Motion Picture Academy Awards that year.

[18] Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave the film two-and-a-half out of four stars, writing that it was a well-made but formulaic neo-western.

[19] The New York Times panned it almost completely, describing the film as a "formula western at its most pokey," and—though praising villain Rickman as "an effortless scene-stealer"—disparaged Selleck and San Giacamo's performances.

[21][22] The protagonist's skill with his rifle has led snipers to refer to the act of killing two targets with a single bullet as "a Quigley",[23][14] a feat so named too in the Halo series of video games.

[24] Annually, Forsyth, Montana renames itself “Quigleyville” in June, drawing hundreds top long-range shooters from around the world for its "Matthew Quigley Buffalo Rifle Match".