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  • The only man who can help is a rugged, two-fisted, woman-shy, pumped and camera-ready cowboy called the Drover (Hugh Jackman).

    Pass the Stuffing: Baz Luhrmann���s Australia Is One Titanic Turkey 2008

  • The only man who can help is a rugged, two-fisted, woman-shy, pumped and camera-ready cowboy called the Drover (Hugh Jackman).

    Pass the Stuffing: Baz Luhrmann���s Australia Is One Titanic Turkey 2008

  • When she hooks up with a wild, untamed cattle driver called The Drover (Hugh Jackman) to lead her herd on a treacherous cross-country trek to Darwin, it's as if he were channeling "Red River" and John Ford and "Lawrence of Arabia."

    It's Epic 2008

  • When Australian cattle barons plot to take her land, she reluctantly joins forces with a rough-hewn local known as The Drover (Hugh Jackman) to drive 2,000 head of cattle across hundreds of miles of the country's most unforgiving land, only to still face the bombing of Darwin by the Japanese forces that had attacked Pearl Harbor.

    unknown title 2009

  • "What you need are 'Drover's Remedies,'" observed Wayward, peering at him through his spectacles; and Portlaw unsuspiciously made a memorandum of the famous live-stock and kennel panacea for future personal emergencies.

    The Firing Line 1899

  • "Drover" Terry Burkhalter from Harrisonburg brought his pair of matched Belgian draft horses and rubber-tired Conestoga-style wagon for trail rides over the battlefield and through the woods behind the EACC.

    Daily News-Record 2009

  • With the help of an enigmatic stockman known only as 'Drover', (Hugh Jackman) she fights to save her land from a takeover by a local cattle baron (Bryan Brown).

    Top stories from Times Online 2008

  • Regardless, the shirtlessness in question occurs early on in the epic, during the tortuous scenes designed to a) establish Jackman aka The Drover's macho bona fides (apparently he's so manly he too can be a Man With No Name), and b) establish the inexorable pull such manliness will have on Nicole Kidman's tightly laced upper class British lady Sarah.

    The Simon 2009

  • Works of Robert Burns: with an Account of his Life, and a Criticism on his Writings (1800) as well as in poems such as 'A Highland Drover 'in Rural Tales.

    Index of People 2009

  • I showed him the songs and left them with him; he says they want some trifling amendment in the Bass, which he will do — then asking if the three which I gave him were all Isaac had composed, I produced the scetch of the 'Highland Drover.' this he seems to think adapted for

    Letter 89 2009

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