by Hal Erickson
synopsis
Also known as Return of the Boomerang, Adam's Woman is set in the rough-and-tumble Australia of the 1840s. Beau Bridges plays Adam, convicted of a crime he didn't commit and shipped off to the penal colony "Down Under". Enduring brutal treatment, he escapes, only to be captured again. Thanks to the intervention of a reform-minded warden John Mills, Adam is offered a fresh start in life. An unexpectedly vicious climax finds Adam and his new wife (Jane Merrow) fending off a group of scurrilous ex-prisoners headed by Adam's onetime cellmate (James Booth).
characteristics
- Miscarriage Of Justice
- Starting Over
- Haunted By The Past
- Imprisonment
- Pardon
- Atrocity
- Magistrate
- Lock-up
- Penal-colony
- Prison
- Atrocities
- Settler
- Settlement [land]
- Release
- Land
