A family leaves city life to take possession of a Wyoming ranch.A family leaves city life to take possession of a Wyoming ranch.A family leaves city life to take possession of a Wyoming ranch.
Ron Howard
- Virgil Tanner
- (as Ronny Howard)
Rance Howard
- Cleve
- (uncredited)
Larry D. Mann
- The Marshal
- (uncredited)
F. Ben Miller
- Shelby
- (uncredited)
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Did you know
- TriviaFrank DeKova loved to sit in local restaurants and visit with kids during filming breaks in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. He was very approachable for an actor.
- GoofsVirgil throws his hat at the bear cub, and then runs off without retrieving it when its mother starts chasing him, yet in the very next shot, the hat is back on his head.
- ConnectionsReferenced in The Pet Set: Episode #1.39 (1971)
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Good, But Looks Like It Should Have Been Better
Steve Forrest and Vera Miles leave Pittsburgh with their sons, Ron and Clint Howard and move to Jackson Hole to farm. However, despite friendly Mountain Men, the big rancher won't let them have any water, and their farm starts to dry up.
It's an agreeable movie to spend a couple of hours with, with some spectacular scenery shot on actual location, but despite the competence of everyone, it looks like they were striving for something and missed it. Was it director Robert Totten, the man whose the previous year's DEATH OF A GUNFIGHTER was the birth of Alan Smithee? Cinematographer Frank Phillips, who compositions show so much baby-blue sky that you don't see the people? The Howard brothers, who performances are monotonous? The post-Walt habit Disney had of reducing everything to blandly heartwarming? I'm not sure, but miscalculations like that turn what could have been a fine movie into one that is good.
It's an agreeable movie to spend a couple of hours with, with some spectacular scenery shot on actual location, but despite the competence of everyone, it looks like they were striving for something and missed it. Was it director Robert Totten, the man whose the previous year's DEATH OF A GUNFIGHTER was the birth of Alan Smithee? Cinematographer Frank Phillips, who compositions show so much baby-blue sky that you don't see the people? The Howard brothers, who performances are monotonous? The post-Walt habit Disney had of reducing everything to blandly heartwarming? I'm not sure, but miscalculations like that turn what could have been a fine movie into one that is good.
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- boblipton
- Mar 28, 2019
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- Runtime1 hour 40 minutes
- Aspect ratio
- 1.75 : 1
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