Interesteg What makes it different from others?

TrueJoshNight Truly Dreadful Film

Claysaba Excellent, Without a doubt!!

Helloturia I have absolutely never seen anything like this movie before. You have to see this movie.

bkoganbing After watching Mustang Country, I'm convinced that Joel McCrea came out of retirement to do this film because he didn't want his last work on cinema to be Cry Blood Apache. This was a western done six years before in which Joel McCrea made a small appearance as an older version of the character that star Jody McCrea played. Jody also produced that rather worthless work and Joel must have regretted he didn't make retirement stick after Ride The High Country the way co-star Randolph Scott did.While Mustang Country will never attain the classic status of Ride The High Country, it's still a nice family western drama. McCrea is on screen for 98% of it with young Nika Mina his Indian co-star. McCrea is a western old timer, former sheep rancher who lives with his daughter and her family, but is now on business of his own to catch a wild black stallion on whom a bounty's been put. But you don't just kill a magnificent animal like this. Along the way McCrea finds young Nika Mina in the wilderness making for home after leaving the white man's school. He's on his way back to the reservation to see his grandfather who raised him. When they get home, grandfather has died and McCrea is all this kid has.So it's the old man, the kid, the old man's mare and his dog. What more do you need to make a family picture? There aren't any human villains, the closest Mustang Country has to a villain is a rogue grizzly bear old Three Toes. As for the stallion, he's up to all the tricks that man can devise. But what he isn't up to is a call to nature and the fact he's been alone himself in the woods for a long time. Good thing McCrea was riding a mare.Only two other human actors have any substantial roles. Robert Fuller and Patrick Wayne play a couple of other cowboys looking to collect the bounty on the stallion, but he's up to their double teaming. They visit with McCrea at his camp for a bit and leave the film early.The cinematography in Banff National Park in Alberta, Canada is really first rate. That and Joel McCrea are the best things about Mustang Country.

lorenellroy This has been described as a Western but I tend to disagree feeling it has more of an affinity with the "wilderness"movies and TV series that were being made around the same time ,such as Adventures of the Wilderness Family and Grizzly Adams.It is a simple tale of an ex-rodeo star turned rancher (Joel McCrea)who ,joined by a young native American boy (Nika Mina)sets out to capture the last wild mustang in Montana ,during the 1920's .There are only two other roles -a brief one scene appearance from Robert Fuller (ex of the Laramie TV show)and Patrick Wayne.The movie is pleasant but inconsequential offering little drama or character interaction but beguiling the eye with some attractive scenery and I suspect its main appeal will be to those seeking undisturbing family entertainment . It was to be Joel McCrea's last movie and he brought to it his usual rock solid professionalism The movie uses clips from earlier McCrea movies to illustrate the psst life of his character in this movie ..It would have been more fitting if he had ended his career with what turned out to be his penultimate movie Ride the High Country -that wonderfully elegy and tribute to a passing breed of men .As it was he left with this movie -pleasant ,untroubling but a bit too soft focused to be really aimed at adultsIts nice and its amiable -nothing more.

kyrai My daughter loves horses and is 6 years old. She and I watched this movie and were delighted the entire time. This is one of the very few G rated movies that is actually made in such a way that no parts were too intense for a young child. The scenery was lovely. The nature scenes were wonderful. The dialogue was simple, but very real, and laced with kindness that is rare these days. I loved the subtle wisdom of Dan, and the way the boy was refreshed by his influence. An overall winner in my book. One funny detail was that a pure-bred rottweiler dog was in the film, and when the owner was asked what kind of dog it was, he replied, "You name it, he's got it!"

JimB-4 Joel McCrea came out of retirement to do this, and one can only wonder why. It seems likely it was either the chance to spend a lot of time on horseback in astonishing mountain countryside (which one would imagine he'd done plenty of times before this), or he was too nice to turn down a friend. The story is basic and unadorned by nuance or insight. Old cowboy wants wild mustang. Orphaned kid with spunk helps him. Adventures follow. There's no conflict in the story beyond whether the pair will capture the horse. The only two other actors in the movie are nice guys who disappear after one scene. And of the two main actors, Joel McCrea is the only one who can act. (He's not given anything remotely complex to act, though.) The kid is out-acted by McCrea's dog. In fact, the kid is out-acted by McCrea's hat. But it's wonderful to see McCrea in his twilight years, still a consummate pro, still a splendid rider, still a movie star. And the scenery is worth four of the five points I voted the movie.