The Wonderful Country (1959)
Country: US/MEX
Technical: Technicolor 98m
Director: Robert Parrish
Cast: Robert Mitchum, Julie London, Gary Merrill, Albert Dekker
Synopsis:
An American lost soul works as a gun for hire for his Mexican padrón, but a contract for guns over the border takes an unlucky turn that throws him into the company of a cavalry officer's unhappy wife. Having killed a man in a duel he flees back to his adoptive country, but their paths are fated to cross again.
Review:
Uncertain in tone - partly traditional western characters, partly their compromised successors of the kind Brando and Peckinpah would concern themselves with - and discombobulated in narrative, this is frankly a mess, the Mitchum-London chemistry never remotely catching fire on screen.
Country: US/MEX
Technical: Technicolor 98m
Director: Robert Parrish
Cast: Robert Mitchum, Julie London, Gary Merrill, Albert Dekker
Synopsis:
An American lost soul works as a gun for hire for his Mexican padrón, but a contract for guns over the border takes an unlucky turn that throws him into the company of a cavalry officer's unhappy wife. Having killed a man in a duel he flees back to his adoptive country, but their paths are fated to cross again.
Review:
Uncertain in tone - partly traditional western characters, partly their compromised successors of the kind Brando and Peckinpah would concern themselves with - and discombobulated in narrative, this is frankly a mess, the Mitchum-London chemistry never remotely catching fire on screen.
Country: US/MEX
Technical: Technicolor 98m
Director: Robert Parrish
Cast: Robert Mitchum, Julie London, Gary Merrill, Albert Dekker
Synopsis:
An American lost soul works as a gun for hire for his Mexican padrón, but a contract for guns over the border takes an unlucky turn that throws him into the company of a cavalry officer's unhappy wife. Having killed a man in a duel he flees back to his adoptive country, but their paths are fated to cross again.
Review:
Uncertain in tone - partly traditional western characters, partly their compromised successors of the kind Brando and Peckinpah would concern themselves with - and discombobulated in narrative, this is frankly a mess, the Mitchum-London chemistry never remotely catching fire on screen.