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  • Fake Australian: The great Alan Rickman as Quigley's corrupt boss Marston.
  • Completely Different Title:
    • France: Mr. Quigley the Australian
    • Poland: Quigley in the Antipodes
    • Germany: Quigley the Australian
    • Argentina: With All of the Law
    • Brazil: Hired to Kill
    • Finland: Australia's Wild West
    • Greece: The Man of the Far Continent
    • Hungary: Master of Winchesternote 
    • Portugal: Quigley, an Elite Professional
    • Russia: Quigley in Australia
    • Spain: An Aimless Cowboy
    • Sweden: The Sniper
    • Turkey: Hunter
  • The Red Stapler: The Shiloh Rifle Company of Big Timber, Montana, custom-built the Sharps rifle for the movie. They now sell a production model 1874 Sharps Buffalo called the "Quigley."
  • Referenced by...: In Unsounded Mathis Quigley's family name is taken from the film, as confirmed by this author post.
  • What Could Have Been: It was originally set to be Steve McQueen (actor)'s next movie after 1980's The Hunter, but then he died. Cue a decade in Development Hell.
  • The film is pretty popular with snipers in the anglosphere, enough that the term "a quigley" entered their lexicon for a replication of one of the film's most well known trick shots where Quigley kills two goons with one bullet.

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