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The Stalking Moon starring: Henry Beckman, Richard Bull, Lonny Chapman, Noland Clay, Lou Frizzell directed by: Robert Mulligan List Price: CDN$ 9.93 City Travel Guides Price: CDN$ 7.99 You Save: CDN$1.94 (20%)Prices subject to change. |
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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1 Binding: DVD EAN: 0883929005079 Format: NTSC Label: Warner Home Video Manufacturer: Warner Home Video Publisher: Warner Home Video Release Date: August 26, 2008 Studio: Warner Home Video Theatrical Release Date: 1968 Sales Rank: 4608 MPN: WARD036296D Related Items: Related Items:      see moreBrowse for similar items by category:
Editorial Review: From Amazon.com: A scout in the old Southwest (Gregory Peck) undertakes to protect a white woman (Eva Marie Saint) and her half-breed son from the Apache warrior--the woman's captor-husband of 10 years--who wants them back. The scout is a man of estimable courage and resources (again, Gregory Peck), but the mostly unseen Apache is a veritable monster of determination, cunning, and bloodthirstiness: Peck and his two charges doom entire communities to extermination just by passing through the neighborhood. This fierce amalgam of Western and horror movie was the last of seven collaborations between director Robert Mulligan and producer Alan J. Pakula, of which To Kill a Mockingbird was the peak. The Stalking Moon isn't peak material, but it's a demonically effective palm-sweater, and fascinating as a prelude to Pakula's own breakout as director of the great paranoid trilogy Klute, The Parallax View, and All the President's Men. Robert Forster has an early role as a fellow, part-Indian scout. --Richard T. Jameson Customer Reviews
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 Rating:  - "Gregory Peck Series ... The Stalking Moon (1968) ... Warner Bros."Warner Bros. presents "THE STALKING MOON" (25 December 1968) (109 mins/Colo) (Dolby digitally remastered) -- Our story line and plot, "The Stalking Moon", adapted from a novel by Theodore V. Olsen, opens in the Arizona of the Old West, as the U.S. calvary is in the process of relocating Native Americans to reservations --- As army scout Sam Varner (Gregory Peck) is mustering out and retire to a farm in New Mexico --- Varner takes pity on a white woman Sarah Carver (Eva Marie Saint) and her half-breed son recently rescued from indians, and invites them to join him. He does this even knowing the child's father is a feared and murderous Apache and that sooner or later a showdown is almost inevitable --- Gregory Peck is still a screen presence in ... Read More: Rating: - NOT Slow... but Suspenseful!This is one of the best westerns ever made...hands down! The gorgeous scenery, the nailbiting suspense, the admirable skills of all the protagonists, the realistic motivations and characterizations of the personalities. I love the way we never see Salvarjo's face...always obscured by by a tree or distance. All this adds to our anxiety and apprehension. The supper scene is full of incredible tenderness, gentle humour, and some the best acting by Peck and Saint bar none. And Robert Forster, while still a fine actor today with eyes to die for...the man was some hunk, back in 1968!! Rating: - A WESTERN OF HITCHCOCKIAN PROPORTIONSWhat would a western directed by Alfred Hitchcock have looked like? Odds are that THE STALKING MOON, starring Gregory Peck, would come close. Peck plays Sam Varner, a scout in the Southwest working to round up the last vestiges of the fierce Apache tribe. Reluctantly he succumbs to the insistent appeals of a white woman (Eva Marie Saint), whom he has rescued from ten years of captivity among the Apaches, to take her and her half-breed son away from their makeshift camp. The one detail that she withholds is that her husband and the father of the boy is the notorious, bloodthirsty and diabolical Apache warrior Salvaje. And you don't have to be historian to recognize that Salvaje is patterned after the real-life Apache warrior Geronimo. Read More: Rating:  - worth a lookThis film is a little slow, and we don't see the indian until near the end..but this makes it real..they could hide themselves so well. I liked the fight at the end... Rating: - Gregory Peck goes mano e mano with the warrior SalvajeI have read only two Western novels in my life. The second was Larry McMurtry's "Lonesome Dove," after seeing the televison mini-series, and the first was Theodore V. Olsen's "The Stalking Moon," after seeing this 1968 film. I have tried to think of whether there is really a common denominator between the two and while they share fine performances by Oscar winning actors and an attention to psychological conflicts, they are still rather different stories. Gregory Peck plays San Varner, a scout for the U.S. cavalry on his last mission, which is to round up some Apaches to take to the reservation. This particular group follows Salvaje (Nathaniel Narcisco), the famed warrior who likes to hunt his enemies alone, using a Sharps ... Read More: |
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