The Last Frontier (1955)

User Rating:

6.5/10   

Director:

Anthony Mann

Writers:

Richard Emery Roberts (novel)
Philip Yordan (screenplay) ...

Release Date:

23 January 1956 (Portugal)

Genre:

History | Western

Plot:

Crude and uncivilized backwoods trapper Jed Cooper and his two partners sign up as scouts in a remote Oregon army fort...

Plot Keywords:

Fort | Battle | Raid | Fur Trapper | Drunkenness

Cast

Victor Mature	...	Jed Cooper
Guy Madison	...	Captain Glenn Riordan
Robert Preston	...	Col. Frank Marston
James Whitmore	...	Gus
Anne Bancroft	...	Corinna Marston
Russell Collins	...	Captain Phil Clarke
Peter Whitney	...	Sergeant Major Decker
Pat Hogan	...	Mungo

Also Known As:

Savage Wilderness (USA) (TV title)

Runtime:

98 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono (RCA Sound System)

Certification:

West Germany:12 (nf) | Finland:K-12 | USA:Approved (PCA #17512) | Sweden:15

Filming Locations:

Mexico

Company:

Columbia Pictures Corporation

Trivia:

James Whitmore plays Victor Mature's father figure, and helped raise him, in the film, despite the fact that Mature was actually eight years older than Whitmore.

Quotes:

Corinna Marston: I married a man - not a uniform.

Soundtrack:

Me and My Dreams

The Savage Vic Mature!!!

While this picture may be minor Anthony Mann, it's a very off-beat, well acted, western. Mature is the anti-thesis of Mann's uber-hero, the driven, edgy loner played to perfection by Jimmy Stewart. Mann plays to Mature's strengths by casting him as the uncivilized, passion driven scout given to bouts of raucous drunkenness. Robert Preston is very good as the obsessed, kill-crazy Colonel whose wife (Anne Bancroft) Mature covets He also slugs her! Wow! Savage Mature!