Meat pie Western

Meat pie Western is a slang term to used to describe an American Western-style movie or TV series set in the Australian outback.^[1] It is a play on the expression "spaghetti Western". The terms is used to differentiate more Americanised Australian films from those with a more historical basis, such as ones about bushrangers.^[2]

Examples include:

• Rangle River (1936)
• Captain Fury (1939)
• The Kangaroo Kid (1950)
• Kangaroo (1952)
• The Phantom Stockman (1953)
• Shadow of the Boomerang (1960) - a Christian variation
• Whiplash (1960-61) - TV series
• Raw Deal (1977)
• The Man from Snowy River (1982)
• Five Mile Creek (1983-85) - TV series
• Quigley Down Under (1991)

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