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Epicurus.com - Stalking Moon
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List Price: $14.98
Our Price: $24.99
Availability: N/A
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Starring: Gregory Peck, Eva Marie Saint, Robert Forster, Noland Clay, Russell Thorson
Directed By: Robert Mulligan
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Average Customer Rating:  
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Audience Rating: G (General Audience)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786302816501
Format: Color
ISBN: 6302816505
Label: Warner Home Video
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Release Date: 1993-08-02
Running Time: 108
Studio: Warner Home Video
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Editorial Reviews:
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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
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Customer Rating:
Summary: Great movie--DVD missing scene selection
Comment: Wonderful movie! I loved the way the silence brooding over the Southwest landscape is reflected in the film: in Varner's strong, stoic character; in the taciturn scowl of the Indian boy; in the silent menace of Salvaje (correct spelling?)Two things, though, about the DVD. First, if you've seen the movie on TV, the first and last parts are usually shown in widescreen, but the majority of the movie is shown full-screen. Not here! The whole movie is shown in widescreen--making for a sharp, luscious picture. That's the good news (the very good news!). The bad news is . . . there's no scene selection option on the DVD menu! (Why did they leave that out? I do not know.) So,great movie--good (but not great) DVD.
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Summary: The Stalking Moon
Comment: A very unusual Western for it's time. The vast majority of Westerns made in the 1940s to 1960s were the normal themes of good guy against bad guy with a little romance thrown in to boot. Once in awhile you got something a little different like men tracking someone or searching for someone but there wasn't a great deal of suspense, just lots of shooting. This movie is more like a Thriller than a Western. Gregory Peck and the rest the cast do a great job making the movie suspenseful. One reviewer mentioned it is like Hitchcock movie and indeed I agree, if Hitchcock had made a Western it would have been like this one. Peck plays a scout that has the job of escorting a woman and her half Indian son to safety. They are being pursued by a relentless Apache that is above average with his survival skills. This is well worth at least a rental, but I bought it myself because at this price I couldn't pass on this classic Peck Western. Good quality DVD with good replayability. If you enjoyed this catch "Hondo" and "The Bravados".
CA Luster
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Summary: When You Don"t Expected It Youl See A Great Movie!!
Comment: This Is A Western,That When You Put It On You Cant Walk Away From The Screen.Simple story But Very Entertaining.Especially When Salvaje Enters The Cabin In A Stealth Manner.
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Summary: Western Thriller
Comment: THE STALKING MOON is one of the great "later" Hollywood westerns! Produced
in 1968 it came at a time when westerns were losing something of their appeal. The film had mixed reviews when it was first released but since then it has gained a sort of cult status and is now generally well praised by western fans. So this release of the movie on DVD at this time is very welcome and opportune.
From a fine screenplay by Alvin Sargent and tight direction by Robert
Mulligan "The Stalking Moon" turned out to be a highly charged drama set
in the west. Gregory Peck arguably gave his best performance in a western
as the Arizona cavalry scout of 20 years who is now retiring to his ranch in New Mexico. To keep house for him he reluctantly takes on a woman (Eve Maria Saint)who had just been rescued from the Apaches along with her son - an Indian boy. She had been abducted by the Apaches and was their prisoner for more than ten years. Peck feels for her plight and offers to take her on unaware alas that the boy's father - an infamous and
murderous Apache by the name of Salvaje - wants his son back and leaving a trail of dead bodies in his wake has tracked them to the ranch.
Terrific excitement then ensues as the Indian makes effort after effort
to retrieve the boy, with Peck just about deterring him at every attempt
but not before the deaths of any help he had mobilised. A game of cat and mouse develops between the two antagonists and excitement reaches fever pitch when finally alone Peck takes on his slippery foe in a fierce and
climactic hand to hand fight to the death.
It is all extremely well done especially never seeing what the Apache really looks like throughout the picture. Phantom-like - he is only seen in fleeting glimpses now and then. The actor Nathaniel Narcisco gives a superb performance of authenticity as the fearsome Apache as does young Noland Clay as the boy. In fact the entire movie has a marvellous authentic thrust to it! Excellent too is Eve Maria Saint who's role is that of a tortured and sorrowful figure. Her performance is heartfelt and sincere! Also playing a good part is Robert Forster as the illfated half breed friend of Peck who joins forces with him against the Apache and Russell Thorson as the caretaker of the ranch.
This is a nail-biting thrill packed western thanks to a great cast, Mulligan's taut direction, Charles Lang's stylish Panavision cinematography and an excellent atmospheric score by the underrated Fred Karlin who also supplied a traditional and haunting whistled theme tune.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Stalking Moon
Comment: one of my personal Top 10 All-Time Westerns. extraordinary suspense. so glad it finally made it to DVD.
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