Untamed (1955)

Directed by

Henry King

Genre

drama film, adventure film, romance film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 51m

Rated

NR

Rating

6.0 of 10 from 15 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

The Boer War and the Great Trek take center stage in this story. A woman flees Irish famine and finds love and danger among settlers in South Africa.

epicromanticadventuroussweepingmelodramatichistoricalvisually expansive

What happens

Untamed is a 1955 American CinemaScope adventure Western film, directed by Henry King and starring: Tyrone Power, Susan Hayward and Richard Egan, with Agnes Moorehead, Rita Moreno and Hope Emerson. It was made by Twentieth Century-Fox in DeLuxe Color. The screenplay was by: William A. Bacher, Michael Blankfort, Frank Fenton and Talbot Jennings from a 1950 novel by Helga Moray. The music score was by Franz Waxman and the cinematography by Leo Tover. Untamed was the last film edited by Barbara McLean, and her twenty-ninth with Henry King. King called the film "like Cimarron done in South Africa." (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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