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The Wonderful Country (1959)

The Wonderful Country poster
Directed by
Robert Parrish
Genre
Western film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 38m
Rated
NR
Rating
6.1 of 10 from 70 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A man drifts into a border town and gets caught between two sides. He tries to find his place but old loyalties and new conflicts pull him in different directions.

sun-drenchedcontemplativeunderstatedclassicold-fashionedwanderingserious

What happens

The Wonderful Country is a 1959 American Technicolor Western film based (with substantial changes) on Tom Lea's 1952 novel of the same name that was produced by Robert Mitchum's DRM Production company in Mexico. Mitchum stars along with Julie London. Baseball pitcher Satchel Paige plays a soldier in the film, and Lea has a cameo as a barber. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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