Titreenp SERIOUSLY. This is what the crap Hollywood still puts out?

Breakinger A Brilliant Conflict

KnotStronger This is a must-see and one of the best documentaries - and films - of this year.

Kamila Bell This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

Irving Warner Saw "Many Rivers to Cross" when it came out originally, then just recently -- in a boxed set of westerns from "Costco". I was 13 when I first saw it--and didn't remember much about it. Now, I know why, there's nothing memorable about it. This was an effort to equal the popularity and success of "The Quiet Man", a "comedy" with a roughly parallel tone and marriage-spoof/conflict. It even brings back Victor McGlaughlin in an almost identical role as "Man". The bad mistake with "Rivers...Cross", is that just because a Western has a comedic tone, it doesn't mean it should insult the genre right down to the spokes and horse's hooves. Some respect should be shown,if only a minimum, regards sets, script continuity, costumes and the times when the film is supposed to occur. Plus, if the budget requires a mostly studio effort, then some vigor should be made in the studios scenes to make them appear roughly genuine. If this were a weak "B" second feature from a minor studio maybe the poor quality could be excused; however, the cast was first rate, and this was allegedly an "A" movie. So, as an "A" movie, it completely failed for me. Lastly, it wasn't funny at all.

whpratt1 If you liked Robert Taylor, (Bushrod Gentry) in many of his films, you will enjoy this comedy with Eleanor Parker, (Mary Stuart Cheme). This film opens up with Bushrod traveling through the woods of Kentucky as a hunter to just sold $400.00 worth of furs at a trading post and the young girl at the post had her eyes on Bushrod for marriage, but this was not what Bushrod wanted in his life for a long time to come.Bushrod runs into an Indian who attacks Mary Stuart Cheme, and saves her from being scalped and raped. It was from that moment on that Mary Stuart was determined to have this man as her husband.There is plenty of comedy and Victor McLaglen, (Mr. Cadmus Cheme) gave a great supporting role along with many other famous actors. Enjoy.

mhall-17 I saw this film on T.V. as a college student taking a study break from marathon reading sessions to meet rapidly approaching course deadlines. This rare mix of comedy and action ,set in an 18th century frontier that had not often been portrayed in film, was an unexpected pleasure which quickly refreshed my punchy, sleep-deprived brain. Bushrod Jentry's fighting skills are genuine but his ability to intimidate potential opponents with accounts of the damage he has done to previous opponents is priceless comedy- made even more delicious by his disguising his boasts as prayers for advanced forgiveness from God! Victor Mc Laglen(as his myopic future father-in-law) Alan Hale Jr. (as Jentry's blow-hard competitor for a lady's favors) and a youthful James Arness (as a fellow frontier brawler) also add texture and energy to the tale. Better yet, the fight scenes against realistic looking Shawnees (who appear to mean business when they attack) accentuates the comedy with a reminder that it takes place on the margins of a life and death struggle. Finally, the cheerful theme song adds a care-free tone to the soundtrack-perfectly in keeping with Bushrod's approach to life.

kr111 I have been searching for the theme song of this movie "The Berry Tree" since I saw it once as a 6 year-old kid in 1955 or 56. I've hummed the melody and sung the few lyrics I remembered since then. I finally got the VHS tape last week and what a pleasure. This is a fantastic frontier comedy and it brings back fond memories of me as a young kid wearing a Davy Crockett coonskin cap and singing the song. Here are the lyrics to the song if anyone else has wondered what they were for 45 years or so, as I had. From other comments here, this song made an indelible impression on almost everyone that has heard it.The higher up the berry tree the sweeter grows the berryThe more you hug and kiss a gal the more she wants to marryThe berry tree's a wise old tree the sweetest fruit is his'nBut marryin' up with any gal is just like goin' to prison(Bridge)Peaches in the summertime, apples in the fall Till I find the gal I want, a' gonna have none at allCause higher up.