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6.6/10   549 votes
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Director:
Robert Mulligan
Writers:
Alvin Sargent (screenplay)
Wendell Mayes (adaptation)
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Contact:
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Release Date:
15 February 1969 (Sweden) more
Genre:
Romance | Western more
Plot:
When an army scout retires to a farm in New Mexico he takes pity on a white woman and her half-breed son recently rescued from indians... more | add synopsis
Awards:
1 nomination more
NewsDesk:
(2 articles)
Robert Forster: The Hollywood Interview
 (From The Hollywood Interview. 14 April 2009, 12:19 AM, PDT)

Robert Mulligan Dead At Age 83; Directed "To Kill A Mockingbird"
 (From CinemaRetro. 22 December 2008, 8:54 AM, PST)

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Dark shadows and unseen danger more

Cast

  (Complete credited cast)

Gregory Peck ... Sam Varner

Eva Marie Saint ... Sarah Carver

Robert Forster ... Nick Tana
Noland Clay ... Boy
Russell Thorson ... Ned
Frank Silvera ... Major
Lonny Chapman ... Purdue
Lou Frizzell ... Stationmaster
Henry Beckman ... Sgt. Rudabaugh
Charles Tyner ... Dace
Richard Bull ... Doctor
Sandy Brown Wyeth ... Rachel (as Sandy Wyeth)

Joaquín Martínez ... Julio
Boyd 'Red' Morgan ... Stage Driver Shelby (as Red Morgan)
Nathaniel Narcisco ... Salvaje
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Additional Details

Runtime:
109 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color (Technicolor)
Aspect Ratio:
2.35 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono
Certification:
USA:G | Iceland:16 | Australia:PG

Fun Stuff

Goofs:
Errors in geography: The movie was set and filmed in the Mojave Desert, yet in an early scene at an Army camp, the still night air is filled with the sound of crickets and frogs. This would be fine had the camp been in or near an oasis, but it clearly was not. With no wind, there should have been no sound at all from outside the camp. more
Quotes:
Sarah Carver: I didn't have the courage to die. I knew what I had to do to stay alive. more
Movie Connections:
Referenced in Reflections of Evil (2002) more

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22 out of 22 people found the following comment useful:-
Dark shadows and unseen danger, 2 April 2003
7/10
Author: NewEnglandPat from Virginia

This western was released when Hollywood was about finished with the genre and the film went largely unnoticed. However, the movie is well photographed, with good work by Gregory Peck, although Eva Marie Saint doesn't have much to do in the way of dialogue. Peck is a cavalry scout who quits the military to ranch in New Mexico and takes Saint and her half-breed son with him. Peck and Saint eventually turn up the romantic flames, but her boy is the object of a deadly game of search and destroy. The lad's father, a murderous Apache warrior, wants to reclaim him, and perhaps kill the woman for deserting him. The film has plenty of suspense, creepy shadows, and eerie noises in the dark and at times seems more like a mystery than a western. Most of the action occurs at picture's end, and Fred Karlin's plaintive yet thrilling score builds up the tension as Peck and Salvaje edge towards their showdown.

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