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starring: Gregory Peck, Eva Marie Saint, Robert Forster, Noland Clay, Russell Thorsondirected by: Robert Mulligan
Audience Rating: G (General Audience)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786302816501
Format: Color, NTSC
ISBN: 6302816505
Label: Warner Home Video
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Release Date: August 02, 1993
Running Time: 109 minutes
Sales Rank: 13351
Studio: Warner Home Video
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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
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Bad ratio
I have been waiting for "The Stalking Moon" to come out on DVD for a long, long time -- and now it is here: in 1:33 ratio???!!!! What is going on?! This is not a living-room set, a city location. Why in the world lose most of the film, the grandeur, the beauty of the cinematography? It reminds me of the time I mistakenly bought the "Standard" version, "reformated for your TV," version of "The Music Man," and ended up with myriad scenes featuring a barbershop duet, instead of a quartet. No thanks.
Rating:  - Not as good as I remember
I had not seen this movie since my favorite wild, teen age country Aunt took me to see it when I was a kid. Because of my fond memories surrounding the whole experience I decided to take a trip down memory lane and buy a copy. But I was dissapointed.
This is the story of a woman, kidnapped by Indians as a child, who flees her Indian captors and husband of ten years along with her young son, a product of the union with her Indian husband. The woman's husband, The Stalking Moon, is determined ... Read More
Rating:  - CHASING THE 'GHOST'
The movie was based on the 1965 Doubleday DD Western hardcover book by Theodore V. Olsen entitled THE STALKING MOON. By mentioning that Sam's name in the book was 'Vetch', rather than 'Varner' as in the movie, one can correctly surmise there exist differences between the movie and the book. Isn't that how it generally happens, though?
Overall the movie is one of the best western movies I have ever watched, and I continually read western novels and watch western movies. This ... Read More
Rating: - Salking Moon
Finally a dvd of one of Gregory Pecks best westerns. It's sharp, crisp & great scenery.
Rating: - The Stalking Moon
This is a cracking litle Western. I sat through it twice when it first came out in 1968/9. You can feel yourself digging deeper into your seat in scenes where Salvaje is either immenent or on screen. Peck unplays the scout who reluctantly takes on the woman and her son unkowing of their true situation. Scenes involving him and the lovely Eva Marie Saint are played low key yet are suffused with emotion. There's no sham heroics - Peck as Sam Varner is thoroughly professional in his approach to snaring the ... Read More
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